Re: [ADMIN] postgres 6.2 vacuum

On Friday 26 September 2003 10:52, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu> writes:
> > This isn't necessarily true. That old of a version of PostgreSQL is
> > probably running on a quite out-of-date OS -- for instance, if the OS was
> > Red Hat Linux, then the point at which 6.2.1 was shipped was RHL 5.0.
> > Can you even compile PostgreSQL 7.3.x on RHL 5.0 or its contemporaries?

> Surely. We still support other platforms that make RHL 5.0 look like
> the new kid on the block. There might not be RPMs available, but I
> can't believe it wouldn't compile from source.

I think I tried a 7.1.x on 5.2 a long time ago, and it didn't build for some
reason. But that has been some time ago. I might just build up a 5.2 system
(plus errata) to see.

> I do agree that people running that old a Linux distro need to think
> about updating more than just Postgres, though. They have kernel bugs
> as well as PG bugs to fear :-(

2.0 happily doesn't have many new bugs, and it is being maintained, IIRC.
Just not by Red Hat.
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