Not long ago, The Hermit Hacker proclaimed...
> On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Duncan Kinder wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have downloaded and gunziped the 6.5.2 patch.
> >
> > It will not tar xvf.
> >
> > What do I do with it?
> gunzip it
>
I love it when developers fail to read the messages they reply to. :-)
You use the 'patch' command to apply the patch after it is gunzip'd.
cd /usr/local/src/postgreql-6.5.2
patch -p0 /path/to/patchfile
-=Fozz
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