On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:24 PM, shadrack <shadkeene@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mar 2, 5:35 pm, pie...@xxxxxxxxxxxx (John R Pierce) wrote: >> Tom Lane wrote: >> > shadrack <shadke...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> >> My basic question is...are php4 and postgresql 8.3 compatible? >> >> I'm running Linux Redhat 3.4.6, php4.3.9, and postgresql 8.3. I know, >> >> some of those versions are old...its government, and I unfortunately >> >> don't have control over the version. >> >> > Er ... Red Hat *what*? I don't think they ever used such a version >> > number. If they did it was a very long time ago (for calibration, >> > they were just about to release RHL 7.3 when I joined the company, >> > in 2001). >> >> well, remember, they went Red Hat Linux 7.x, 8.x, 9 then very quickly >> switched to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2, 2.1, 3, 4, and currently RHEL >> 5. RHEL 3 has had several quarterly updates, most recent of which is >> u9(I think), sometimes referred to as 3.9. >> >> if its RHEL 3 update-something that shadrack is discussing, it came with >> php 4.3.2 and rh-postgresql 7.3.21 (shudder!) >> >> -- >> Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-gene...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) >> To make changes to your subscription:http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general > > Yes, we had postgresql 7.3 but I installed postgresql 8.3 onto the > rhel3. Do you think its going to work? What's the solution that > involves the least work, considering I'm not the one maintaining these > machines? Do you think it would be simple for the IT person to update > to rhel5 and php5? Its basically just one machine that he would have > to update. Thoughts? Thanks so much for all the feedback. > shad Going straight to RHEL 5 would be a way smarter move. it's stable, it's supported, and it has php5 and pgsql 8.something as a default (8.2? Somewhere in there). Plus,. if you want 8.3 you just don't install 8.2 and instead grab the PGDG rpms from the postgresql ftp site. I could maybe understand a corporate policy of supporting RHEL4, but RHEL3 is ancient. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
