Postgresql problem in AIX 5.3

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#1Kelvin Lau
kelvin.lau@sas.com

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have a question regarding Postgresql on AIX 5.3's compatibility, since there are reported problems for this combination in newsgroup. I have also tried to install it also. The installation was successful and there was a message indicating that. However, when I ran the command 'createdb xythos', there was error:
createdb: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: unsupported frontend protocol 0.0: server supports 1.0 to 3.0
Several versions (Posgresql 7.4.8, 8.0.0, 8.0.3) had been tried but the results were the same.
Is Postgresql on AIX 5.3 supported? If yes, why there is such error and how to avoid?

Regards,
Kelvin

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Kelvin Lau (#1)
Re: Postgresql problem in AIX 5.3

"Kelvin Lau" <kelvin.lau@sas.com> writes:

createdb: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: unsupported frontend protocol 0.0: server supports 1.0 to 3.0

This is a known problem caused by a bug in the system header files that
IBM supplies. There may by now be an update available from IBM to fix
their error, or you can manually patch the header files and recompile
Postgres. See the list archives for details, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/2005-05/msg00021.php

regards, tom lane

#3Chris Browne
cbbrowne@acm.org
In reply to: Kelvin Lau (#1)
Re: [BUGS] Postgresql problem in AIX 5.3

tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane) writes:

"Kelvin Lau" <kelvin.lau@sas.com> writes:

createdb: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: unsupported frontend protocol 0.0: server supports 1.0 to 3.0

This is a known problem caused by a bug in the system header files that
IBM supplies. There may by now be an update available from IBM to fix
their error, or you can manually patch the header files and recompile
Postgres. See the list archives for details, eg
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ports/2005-05/msg00021.php

There is a bit more [recent/specific/comprehensive] information in the
AIX FAQ...

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_AIX.html
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#4Chris Browne
cbbrowne@acm.org
In reply to: Kelvin Lau (#1)
Re: Postgresql problem in AIX 5.3

kelvin.lau@sas.com ("Kelvin Lau") writes:

I have a question regarding Postgresql on AIX 5.3's compatibility, since there are reported problems for this combination in newsgroup. I have also tried to install it also. The installation was successful and there was a message indicating that. However, when I ran the command 'createdb xythos', there was error:
createdb: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: unsupported frontend protocol 0.0: server supports 1.0 to 3.0
Several versions (Posgresql 7.4.8, 8.0.0, 8.0.3) had been tried but the results were the same.
Is Postgresql on AIX 5.3 supported? If yes, why there is such error and how to avoid?

Have you read the FAQ?

This issue results from a bug introduced in AIX 5.3. See the FAQ
entry on this at the URL below.

<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_AIX.html&gt;
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