Re: Salvage older PostgreSQL data disk - help? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From scott.marlowe
Subject Re: Salvage older PostgreSQL data disk - help?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.33.0312220839340.30111-100000@css120.ihs.com
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In response to Re: Salvage older PostgreSQL data disk - help?  (Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>)
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

> I think you're going to have to build an old PG.  But really, how long
> does that take, an hour maybe on a slow machine?  Just install it to a
> non-standard directory and you'll be fine.

FYI, on the slowest computer I own, pgsql 7.2 took 30 minutes to run
./configure and 2.5 hours to run make / make install.  that machine is a
486DX250 laptop (Toshiba 4700) with 16 Megs of RAM.  A 50 MHz Sparc 20
with SCSI drives took about half that time.


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