Re: Connecting to old 7.1 Database

After a trying a few different versions, 7.2.8 seems to compile OK and
is happy connecting to a 7.1 server.

Andy

Andy Greensted wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I need to connect to a version 7.1 PostgreSQL database. Unfortunately, I
> cannot get the 7.1.3 source to compile. configure gives this error:
>
> checking types of arguments for accept()... configure: error: could not
> determine argument types
>
> I'm not posting to pgsql-bugs because I think this is to do with me
> having a much newer environment (gentoo linux) than was around when
> 7.1.3 was released.
>
> So, two questions:
>
> - Is there anyway to run a newer version (8.3.5) of psql in some sort of
> 'backwards compatible' mode?
>
> - Do you have any tips on making 7.1.3 compile on a newer system?
>
> Many thanks
> Andy
>
>

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