Re: Installation of Postgres 7.1

[Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:57:03AM +0800, Jonathan Chocolate wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am unable to install postgres 7.1.2 on my Ubuntu Linux Box. I am
> installing postgres 7.1.2 from source. I stopped at the process of invoking
> the "make" command.

Dear gods, that's an ancient version. You're not going to get a lot of
help fixing something that old, nearly 6 major releases ago.

In any case, you're definitly not going to get any help if you don't
provide any actual error messages.

> I have a 7.1.2 database with me and plan to replicate it to another box.
> Pg_dump reports and error while I was dumping.

What kind of errors? That version had no protection against XID
wraparounnd... (which would be catastrophic).

> My Linux Boxes are all Ubuntu.
> 
> What can i do?

Install a newer version, say, 8.1.x?

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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