Re: Is Postgres broken in Red Hat 9?

On Wednesday 09 July 2003 09:00, Dragan Matic wrote:
> This is from the Postgres Site:

> "In addition, this driver fixes an annoying problem with recent builds
> of PostgreSQL on Redhat systems that have a particularly long compiler
> version string that caused a buffer overflow resulting in a GPF on
> Windows upon connection to the database. "

This information should be updated, as this problem probably would occur on
any system using gcc 3.x, as that is the package with the long version
string.  It shouldn't be a Red Hat specific bug.

This issue should have been present on Red Hat 8.0 as well, since it's
virtually the same compiler.  IIRC, you said you went from RH 7.3 up.  7.3
used the much-maligned Red Hat-specific gcc 2.96, whose version string is
much shorter.  Test it yourself with 'gcc --version' and see what you get.
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