Re: postgres 7.1.3 wth perl 5.8.0

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 12:05:49PM +0700, Christian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Use a later release.
> >
> >Seriously, 7.1.* is not supported anymore. There are extremely
> >serious known bugs in it that will never be fixed. I can't imagine
> >a reason for you to be trying to build it rather than something
> >more current.
>
> actually, we are upgrading our system the previously using Redhat
> 7.1 and Postgres 7.1.3, and upgrading postgres meaning we have to
> update our applications too, and that's probably out of question.

Are you going to support your own branch of PostgreSQL in perpetuity?
That's what you're signing up for if you don't upgrade.

> so.. is there a way to fix this without upgrading postgres, but not
> using Redhat 7.x ?

No.

Cheers,
D
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