"Gerald D. Anderson" <gander@vte.com> writes:
> So, the plot thickens. Is there somewhere I can go tweak a few bytes to
> make it think it's 7.3?
No. That's not what you want anyway; you want a late 7.4 build, just
one without the hierarchical-queries patch. I dunno enough about Gentoo
to say how you get rid of a patch you don't want, but if it's anything
like RPMs, you can just dike the patch out of the specfile and rebuild.
regards, tom lane