Ports This manual describes version 7.0 of Postgres. The Postgres developer community has compiled and tested Postgres on a number of platforms. Check the web site for the latest information. Currently Supported Platforms At the time of publication, the following platforms have been tested: Supported Platforms OS Processor Version Reported Remarks AIX 4.3.2 RS6000 v7.0 2000-04-05 Andreas Zeugswetter BSDI 4.01 x86 v7.0 2000-04-04 Bruce Momjian Compaq Tru64 5.0 Alpha v7.0 2000-04-11 Andrew McMurry FreeBSD 4.0 x86 v7.0 2000-04-04 Marc Fournier HPUX PA-RISC v7.0 2000-04-12 Both 9.0x and 10.20. Tom Lane IRIX 6.5.6f MIPS v6.5.3 2000-02-18 MIPSPro 7.3.1.1m N32 build. Kevin Wheatley Linux 2.0.x Alpha v7.0 2000-04-05 With published patches. Ryan Kirkpatrick Linux 2.2.x armv4l v7.0 2000-04-17 Regression test needs work. Mark Knox Linux 2.2.x x86 v7.0 2000-03-26 Lamar Owens Linux 2.0.x MIPS v7.0 2000-04-13 Cobalt Qube. Tatsuo Ishii Linux 2.2.5 Sparc v7.0 2000-04-02 Tom Szybist LinuxPPC R4 PPC603e v7.0 2000-04-13 Tatsuo Ishii mklinux PPC750 v7.0 2000-04-13 Tatsuo Ishii NetBSD 1.4 arm32 v7.0 2000-04-08 Patrick Welche NetBSD 1.4U x86 v7.0 2000-03-26 Patrick Welche NetBSD m68k v7.0 2000-04-10 Mac 8xx. Henry B. Hotz NetBSD/sparc Sparc v7.0 2000-04-13 Tom I Helbekkmo QNX 4.25 x86 v7.0 2000-04-01 Dr. Andreas Kardos SCO OpenServer 5 x86 v6.5 1999-05-25 Andrew Merrill SCO UnixWare 7 x86 v7.0 2000-04-18 See FAQ. Billy G. Allie Solaris x86 v7.0 2000-04-12 Marc Fournier Solaris 2.5.1-2.7 Sparc v7.0 2000-04-12 Peter Eisentraut, Marc Fournier SunOS 4.1.4 Sparc v7.0 2000-04-13 Tatsuo Ishii Windows/Win32 x86 v7.0 2000-04-02 Client-side libraries or ODBC/JDBC. No server-side. Magnus Hagander WinNT/Cygwin x86 v7.0 2000-03-30 Uses Cygwin library. Daniel Horak
For Windows NT, the server-side port of Postgres uses the RedHat/Cygnus Cygwin library and toolset. For Windows 9x, no server-side port is available due to OS limitations.
Unsupported Platforms Platforms listed for v6.3.x-v6.5.x should also work with v7.0, but we did not receive explicit confirmation of such at the time this list was compiled. We include these here to let you know that these platforms could be supported if given some attention. At the time of publication, the following platforms have not been tested for v7.0 or v6.5.x: Unsupported Platforms OS Processor Version Reported Remarks BeOS x86 v7.0 2000-05-01 Client-side coming soon? Adam Haberlach DGUX 5.4R4.11 m88k v6.3 1998-03-01 v6.4 probably OK. Needs new maintainer. Brian E Gallew NetBSD-current NS32532 v6.4 1998-10-27 Date math annoyances. Jon Buller NetBSD 1.3 VAX v6.3 1998-03-01 v7.0 should work. Tom I Helbekkmo SVR4 4.4 m88k v6.2.1 1998-03-01 v6.4.x will need TAS spinlock code. Doug Winterburn SVR4 MIPS v6.4 1998-10-28 No 64-bit int. Frank Ridderbusch Ultrix MIPS, VAX v6.x 1998-03-01 No recent reports; obsolete?
There are a few platforms which have been attempted and which have been reported to not work with the standard distribution. Others listed here do not provide sufficient library support for an attempt. Incompatible PlatformsIncompatibles OS Processor Version Reported Remarks MacOS all v6.x 1998-03-01 Not library compatible; use ODBC/JDBC NextStep x86 v6.x 1998-03-01 Client-only support; v1.0.9 worked with patches David Wetzel