"Richard Connamacher" <rich.n1@indieimage.com> writes:
> 7.1 may be prehistoric, but it's running on an off-site server that I'm
> renting, and this version came pre-installed. Since it's already there
> and working, I'd like to get familiar with it before I try to reinstall
> a newer version. I doubt I'd know what to do with many of the newer
> features anyway,
It's not so much "more features" as "fewer bugs". There are known data
loss problems in 7.1.* and before (transaction ID wraparound, for
instance, though you might call that a design shortcoming rather than
a bug per se).
regards, tom lane