| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [CORE] archiving binary releases |
| Date: | 2009-01-10 17:41:42 |
| Message-ID: | 15882.1231609302@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Marc,
>> My thought was to keep the last version on each branch, up until what we
>> officially support, and get rid of the 'interum releases' (ie. v8.3RC1) ...
> I see one very, very compelling reason:
> - crash on old machine running any of that releases. The installation
> of PostgreSQL gets trashed by something (wild running virus i.e.)
> To access the files within pg_data you need the binaries of that
> version.
That's nonsense. The last release in the series will do fine, and
forcing an update to the last point release wouldn't be a bad thing
anyway ;-).
regards, tom lane
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