Re: PostgreSQL general discussions list - 2010 Thread: Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Rakesh Kumar <rakeshkumar464(at)outlook(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL general discussions list - 2010 Thread: Wikipedia entry - AmigaOS port - error?
Date: 2017-03-14 13:51:47
Message-ID: CAB7nPqTimiuAPvrmGCHCHH2vYA1evgJb6eaax2PK1pSQSa6vrg@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Rakesh Kumar
<rakeshkumar464(at)outlook(dot)com> wrote:
>>More to the point, whatever "MorphOS" is, it isn't AmigaOS. It was pretty
>>clearly stated in the original thread that AmigaOS had no support for
>>fork(), without which there was no chance of running Postgres.
>
> Just curious, if PG is completely dependent on fork(), how was it ported to Windows
> which also does not support fork directly.

There is a special treatment here with EXEC_BACKEND, so you can get PG
to work even if fork() is not in the area.
--
Michael

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