"Given, Robert A" <bgiven@xxxxxx> writes: > Our philosophy is to use products that have been established, tested and > stable. We tend to not go with newer versions until they have time to > mature and have the bugs worked out. This is the version of the DB that > was packaged with the version of Linux we're using. So our thinking is > that we will go with that until we learn better. It is time for you to learn better, right now. 7.4.2 is old and has numerous known bugs. There is a valid argument for sticking to the 7.4.* series, having to do with avoiding any possible application-compatibility issues for apps that've only been tested with 7.4.*, but there is no reason other than vendor laziness to still be on a two-year-old subrelease in the 7.4.* series. 7.4 is currently at 7.4.11 (by Tuesday it will be 7.4.12) and there are a significant number of security holes and risk-of-data-loss bugs fixed in those updates. See the release history at http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html and then ask yourself if you still trust your Linux vendor's judgment so much. Or you can "learn better" the hard way, by losing data. Your choice. regards, tom lane
