Re: Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12
Date: 2013-02-12 02:51:09
Message-ID: CAOR=d=3u+go4oXh5gLBQ3qRLwB9p6nj7Y+_i6DBQtEtfKRLrOw@mail.gmail.com
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The change from 8.0 to 8.1 that removed implicit casts broke a LOT of
poorly written software.

For OP: Install from source, if you don't need EXACTLY the old 8.0.5
version at least look at the bug fixed version 8.0.latest (28 or so?)

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:17 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2/11/2013 4:29 PM, Wan Hashim wrote:
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>> our legacy system required postgresql 8.0 to run.
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> are you sure it requires this old version? most software works with newer
> versions with little or no changes.
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