Installation of Postgres 7.1

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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On 8/31/06, Jonathan Chocolate <bamvallar.db@gmail.com> 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.

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.

My Linux Boxes are all Ubuntu.

What can i do?

don't expect someone here help you to hang yourself, install a new
version. most recent one is 8.1.4

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to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the universe is winning."
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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.

What error(s)?

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.

My Linux Boxes are all Ubuntu.

What can i do?

Install v8.1?

Seriously, why install such an old version? Some arcane data
requirement?

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Jefferson LA USA

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For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:57:03AM +0800, Jonathan Chocolate wrote:

I am unable to install postgres 7.1.2 on my Ubuntu Linux Box.

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 recall having to add some #include directives to get 7.1 to compile on
newer versions of Linux, and a troll through our CVS logs also finds
things like this:

2004-10-13 18:09 tgl

* src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y (REL7_1_STABLE): Remove
stray semicolons in old ecpg preproc grammar ... modern bison
versions won't compile it at all with those there. Probably of
only academic interest now, but ...

You could no doubt get 7.1 to compile on modern tools with a bit of
work, but I think your time would be far more productively spent on
updating to a modern version of Postgres, instead.

regards, tom lane

bamvallar.db@gmail.com ("Jonathan Chocolate") writes:

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

Consider installing a modern version of PostgreSQL?

7.1.2, which is now over five years old, isn't even the latest release
of 7.1; you should install 7.1.3, if it is 7.1 that you honestly need.
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