Re: A quick question on CONTRIB package

From: Jim Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: Ramakrishna Reddy <ramakrishna(dot)reddy(at)indussoft(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A quick question on CONTRIB package
Date: 2006-06-02 13:31:25
Message-ID: 7E06C738-BA43-4243-BBC7-42FD6784E414@pervasive.com
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On May 31, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Ramakrishna Reddy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to connect to remote databases using Dblink. Our existing
> version is 7.2.1 on Windows and please point me the location of
> this package where I can download from and the installation
> procedure. I don't find any such package existing currently in our
> installation.

You're almost certainly out of luck, and more importantly, you're
asking... no, BEGGING to lose data. There are scores of bugs that
have been fixed since that version. You need to upgrade to something
newer, and if you're going to be running on windows you'll be much
happier with 8.1.4.
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