On Friday 17 September 2010, Tom Lane elucidated thus:
> "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com> writes:
> > On Thursday 16 September 2010, Tom Lane elucidated thus:
> >> Update. Whatever reasons you might have for running 7.3.2 are bad
> >> ones.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I agree with Tom; running 7.3.2 is a bad idea.
> >
> > That said: like he said, he can't. He's running RHEL 4.0.
> > Presumably he is on a support contract, so moving to non-system
> > software means he no longer has vendor support and upgrades for the
> > packages installed on his system. Pg 7.3.x is what came with RHEL
> > 4.
>
> No, it wasn't. Red Hat shipped 7.4.x on RHEL-4, and the current
> package there is 7.4.29. Red Hat did ship 7.3.x on RHEL-3, and the
> current package there is 7.3.21 + several back-ported patches. 7.3.2
> hasn't been current on any Red Hat distro since 2003. I know because
> I do the work.
>
> If he is depending on a third party vendor that can't be bothered to
> update past 7.3.2, he needs to find a less incompetent vendor.
> Pronto, before he loses more data to their incompetence.
I apologize. I went to look at packages, and must have seen the '7' and
it didn't click that it was 7.4. I must have scanned too fast. So
yes, that is *VERY* weird that he is running RHEL 4, but only Pg 7.3.
j
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