Re: Database handle destroyed without explicit disconnect

It took me a week to figure out how to figure out how and where to enter that "select version();" command.

I've figured out that I am running PostgreSQL 7.4.3 on i386-portbld-freebsd4.10, compiled by GCC 2.95.4.

I'm guessing, after looking at <http://www.postgresql.org/>http://www.postgresql.org/ that I should upgrade to Version
7.4.27,correct?  This upgrade won't confuse old shell, PHP and Perl scripts or otherwise confuse FreeBSD, correct?   

Can you point me to novice-friendly step-by-step instructions?

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At 06:50 PM 1/27/2010, Tom Lane wrote:
>peter@vfemail.net writes:
>> Maybe.  How would I do that?  I'm running whatever version of PostgreSQL was current in mid-2004.
>
>2004 was a very long time ago :-(.  A quick look at the release history
>suggests that you could not be running anything newer than about 7.4.2,
>and it could easily be a 7.3.x release or something even older instead.
>You really ought to update the server version before expending any
>additional thought on this, since the odds are reasonably good that that
>crash is something we fixed long since.
>
>Do "select version();" to see exactly what version you have got, and
>then see about updating to the latest minor release in that major
>release series.  Such an update should be relatively painless (no dump
>and reload) though it'd still be smart to peruse the release notes to
>see if there were any small behavioral changes that might affect your
>applications:
>http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release.html
>
>If you still see the crash on the latest minor version, it'd be worth
>probing deeper.
>
>                        regards, tom lane