Re: PostgreSQL 8.2 installation error on Windows 2016 server

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Shruti Rawal <Shruti(dot)Rawal(at)lntinfotech(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.2 installation error on Windows 2016 server
Date: 2017-01-24 20:26:33
Message-ID: 20170124202633.GA26644@fetter.org
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:19:28AM +0000, Shruti Rawal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are doing an assessment for for migrating our Perl applications
> to Windows 2016 server. I am trying to install PostgreSQL 8.2
> version on my Windows server 2016.

PostgreSQL 8.2 has been out of support since 2011. The current
released version is 9.6.

https://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/

If your software depends on the "automatic casts to text" misbehavior
in 8.2 and under as described below, you really need to fix the
software.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-3.html#AEN160304

Best,
David.
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