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Re: buglet in 7.1.4

Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>

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From: Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
To: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, weigelt@metux.de, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-03-09T16:40:14Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 March 2004 10:46 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>>Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
>>
>>>BTW, I can't really see the harm in putting out 7.1.x and 7.2.x
>>>releases to fix compilation issues on modern systems.
>>
>>Also, quite frankly, I don't want to encourage people to keep using
>>such old releases.  If they are installing on a new machine they should
>>update to something newer and less buggy.
> 
> We need the older versions to be compilable on newer systems to ease in 
> version upgrades and migration.

How could they find themselves in a situation where they have a 7.1 
installation that requires dumping for migration, but no binaries 
due to compilation errors? Isn't that a rather low-probability scenario?

Mike Mascari