Re: Upgrade db format without older version of PostgreSQL

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 12:50 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Also, however, I bet 7.2 cannot be compiled on Fedora 11. The oldest
> > PG version that I could build on Fedora 11 was 8.0, IIRC.
>
> I think the problems you had were probably with contrib stuff.
> Building the core server without any extras will probably work
> (perhaps with a lot of warnings, but ignore those).

Could be -- but this is what I got with 7.2.8:

make[3]: Entering directory `/home/devrim/rpm/BUILD/postgresql-7.2.8/src/backend/libpq'
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I../../../src/include -c -o hba.o hba.c
hba.c: In function ‘ident_unix’:
hba.c:885: error: storage size of ‘peercred’ isn’t known
hba.c:885: warning: unused variable ‘peercred’
make[3]: *** [hba.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/devrim/rpm/BUILD/postgresql-7.2.8/src/backend/libpq'
make[2]: *** [libpq-recursive] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/devrim/rpm/BUILD/postgresql-7.2.8/src/backend'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/devrim/rpm/BUILD/postgresql-7.2.8/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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