On Friday 17 September 2010, Tom Lane elucidated thus: > "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Thursday 16 September 2010, Tom Lane elucidated thus: > >> Update. Whatever reasons you might have for running 7.3.2 are bad > >> ones. > > > > Disclaimer: I agree with Tom; running 7.3.2 is a bad idea. > > > > That said: like he said, he can't. He's running RHEL 4.0. > > Presumably he is on a support contract, so moving to non-system > > software means he no longer has vendor support and upgrades for the > > packages installed on his system. Pg 7.3.x is what came with RHEL > > 4. > > No, it wasn't. Red Hat shipped 7.4.x on RHEL-4, and the current > package there is 7.4.29. Red Hat did ship 7.3.x on RHEL-3, and the > current package there is 7.3.21 + several back-ported patches. 7.3.2 > hasn't been current on any Red Hat distro since 2003. I know because > I do the work. > > If he is depending on a third party vendor that can't be bothered to > update past 7.3.2, he needs to find a less incompetent vendor. > Pronto, before he loses more data to their incompetence. I apologize. I went to look at packages, and must have seen the '7' and it didn't click that it was 7.4. I must have scanned too fast. So yes, that is *VERY* weird that he is running RHEL 4, but only Pg 7.3. j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
