Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL 6.5.3 built, but not released ...

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: bhirt@mobygames.com
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-11-04T03:44:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 09:50:09PM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > 
> > Can someone else take a quick peak at the tarball before we release it,
> > just to make sure that nothing is missing?  Its in the normal place, but
> > haven't announced it yet...
> > 
> 
> I downloaded, compiled and installed with no problem and a RedHat 6.0/x86 
> machine.  One thing I noticed is that the PG_SUBVERSION string is still
> reporting 1.  I was confused for a minute when the program reported itself
> as 6.5.1.  I thought the installation failed or something like that.  I 
> checked postgresql-6.5.3/src/include/version.h.in and sure enough, it's 
> defined a 6.5.1   If this is intentional, I'll slap myself for you.
> 
> [root@loopy]# /usr/bin/psql basement
> Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
>   Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
> [PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66]

That seems totally wrong.  My version.h.in file says 6.5.3. Either you
got the wrong file, or Marc has packaged the wrong files.

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