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Re: Salvage older PostgreSQL data disk - help?

scott.marlowe <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>

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From: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>
To: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>
Cc: Conrad <bogus_address@nospam.com>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-12-22T15:40:50Z
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

> I think you're going to have to build an old PG.  But really, how long
> does that take, an hour maybe on a slow machine?  Just install it to a
> non-standard directory and you'll be fine.

FYI, on the slowest computer I own, pgsql 7.2 took 30 minutes to run 
./configure and 2.5 hours to run make / make install.  that machine is a 
486DX250 laptop (Toshiba 4700) with 16 Megs of RAM.  A 50 MHz Sparc 20 
with SCSI drives took about half that time.