Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu> writes:
> This isn't necessarily true. That old of a version of PostgreSQL is probably
> running on a quite out-of-date OS -- for instance, if the OS was Red Hat
> Linux, then the point at which 6.2.1 was shipped was RHL 5.0. Can you even
> compile PostgreSQL 7.3.x on RHL 5.0 or its contemporaries?
Surely. We still support other platforms that make RHL 5.0 look like
the new kid on the block. There might not be RPMs available, but I
can't believe it wouldn't compile from source.
I do agree that people running that old a Linux distro need to think
about updating more than just Postgres, though. They have kernel bugs
as well as PG bugs to fear :-(
regards, tom lane