while I was trying to run slony 1.0.5 and Postgres 8.2.7. Errors like
'xxidv00.so' in 'share' dir not found were coming. It was saying unsupported
postgres version. That's why we shifted to postgres 7.4. But, some other
errors came up.

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Christopher Browne <
cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info> wrote:

> "Anjali Himanshu" <anjaliawake at gmail.com> writes:
> > SLony-1.0.5 and Postgres 7.4.21 are being used.
>
> This isn't really a resolution to the direct problem, but you really
> must consider using newer versions.
>
> - You are running a major version of PostgreSQL that's almost five
>  years old (7.4 was released in late 2003); there are plenty of
>  data-eating bugs that have been resolved in the 4 *major* releases
>  that follow 7.4.  (e.g. - 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3)
>
> - You are trying to run a major version of Slony-I that is now two
>  major versions old, and, again, there are plenty of bugs (some
>  possibly data-eating) that have been resolved in subsequent
>  releases that will never be addressed in the 1.0 branch.
>
> We have sufficiently few people working on Slony-I that we can't
> realistic afford to spend time trying to address problems people are
> having with releases older than 1.2.
>
> You may not, at this time, have an option of upgrading the PostgreSQL
> instance, but you *don't* have the option of *NOT* going to a newer
> version of Slony-I.  Get a copy of 1.2.14.
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