"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.
regards, tom lane