On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Joshua J. Kugler
<joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 September 2010, Tom Lane elucidated thus:
>> "Utsav Turray" <utsav.turray@newgen.co.in> writes:
>> > I am using postgres 7.3.2 on RHEL 4.0.
>>
>> Egad.
>>
>> > Secondly what are probable reasons behind corruption and what can
>> > we do to prevent this error.
>>
>> 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. Considering RHEL 3
> will EOL (finally) at the end of October, RH is going to be supporting
> Pg 7.3 for quite a while. Hopefully they'll back port security fixes.
And 7.3.2 is the last update available for RHEL3? When I look at
centos 3 repos, they have 7.3.21 in them.
--
To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.