Re: [GENERAL] What is postgresql status?

2011-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe writes: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: >> be worked around without *too* much effort, justifies running a known >> broken > Anything before 8.2 is considered broken, unfixable, not going to be > fixed as far as windows is concerned. Actually, anything bef

Re: [GENERAL] What is postgresql status?

2011-08-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > be worked around without *too* much effort, justifies running a known > broken Anything before 8.2 is considered broken, unfixable, not going to be fixed as far as windows is concerned. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-genera

Re: [GENERAL] What is postgresql status?

2011-08-24 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:23 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/24/11 12:14 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: >> >> OP -- take a database dump ASAP and migrate to either 8.2 or 9.0. > > one caveat, 8.4 (and 9.0) tightened up considerably the rules for implicit > typecasting as there were a number of serious

Re: [GENERAL] What is postgresql status?

2011-08-24 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/24/11 12:14 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: OP -- take a database dump ASAP and migrate to either 8.2 or 9.0. one caveat, 8.4 (and 9.0) tightened up considerably the rules for implicit typecasting as there were a number of serious ambiguities in the sloppy way it was done before so code w

Re: [GENERAL] What is postgresql status?

2011-08-24 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > On 24/08/2011 19:53, Mcleod, John wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Don't shoot me, I'm just the fella sweeping up after a departure. >> >> I'm supporting a web site with mapping features using Mapserver and >> PostgreSql 7.5 for windows. > > Th

Re: [GENERAL] What is postgresql status?

2011-08-24 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 24/08/2011 19:53, Mcleod, John wrote: > C:\ms4w\apps\pgsql75win>cd c:\ > > C:\>cd ms4w/apps/pgsql75win/data/ > > C:\ms4w\apps\pgsql75win\data>del postmaster.pid > > Could Not Find C:\ms4w\apps\pgsql75win\data\postmaster.pid > > LOG: database system was shut down at 2011-08-24 17:30:14 Eastern

Re: [GENERAL] What is postgresql status?

2011-08-24 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 24/08/2011 19:53, Mcleod, John wrote: > Hello all, > > Don't shoot me, I'm just the fella sweeping up after a departure. > > I'm supporting a web site with mapping features using Mapserver and > PostgreSql 7.5 for windows. There never was a PostgreSQL 7.5 release - it was changed to 8.0 at so

[GENERAL] What is postgresql status?

2011-08-24 Thread Mcleod, John
Hello all, Don't shoot me, I'm just the fella sweeping up after a departure. I'm supporting a web site with mapping features using Mapserver and PostgreSql 7.5 for windows. Recently, my mapping features went down. Error messages that display are the following... Warning: pg_query(): Query failed