Re: broken configure, broken makefile?

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: broken configure, broken makefile?
Date: 2005-09-01 15:03:00
Message-ID: 20050901150259.GB23787@fetter.org
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:15:19AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Thursday 01 September 2005 09:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > > And this is the reason why it is old. You're asking for pain if
> > > you're using 7.0.3 and this is just the start.
> >
> > There are several good reasons why the community stopped
> > supporting versions before 7.2, which we did quite some time ago.
> > Don't expect a lot of sympathy here when 7.0 eats your data.
> >
>
> Easy there guys! I'm in the process of building a new demo server
> for phppgadmin. We use that for demos and testing, especially on
> these older versions. On the current server we support all the way
> back to 7.0 (on slackware 8 iirc). I fully agree that you don't
> want to be using these older versions if you can avoid it, but just
> a week or so ago we got a bug report from someone using 7.1, so
> those people are out there, and if we can help them I don't see
> anything wrong with that.

The best help you can give these people is to get them onto a system
released since the end of the Clinton administration.

Cheers,
D
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