Re: About the partial tarballs

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Do we have any data on how many people download the partial tarballs
> (-base, -opt, etc.)? I have a feeling that more people are confused by
> them than use them.

on ftp.postgresql.org itself, since June 4th:

2812 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-7.3.3.tar.gz
1854 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-7.3.4.tar.gz
443 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-base-7.3.3.tar.gz
439 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-docs-7.3.3.tar.gz
402 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.4/postgresql-opt-7.2.4.tar.gz
386 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-opt-7.3.3.tar.gz
384 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.4/postgresql-base-7.2.4.tar.gz
289 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-test-7.3.3.tar.gz
267 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-7.3.2.tar.gz
246 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-docs-7.3.4.tar.gz
233 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-base-7.3.4.tar.gz
195 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-opt-7.3.4.tar.gz
177 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-test-7.3.4.tar.gz
168 /var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-opt-snapshot.tar.gz
166 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.2/postgresql-base-7.2.2.tar.gz
165 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.2/postgresql-opt-7.2.2.tar.gz
162 /var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-test-snapshot.tar.gz
151 /var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz
136 /var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-docs-snapshot.tar.gz
127 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.4/postgresql-7.2.4.tar.gz
100 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.1/postgresql-7.2.1.tar.gz
96 /var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-base-snapshot.tar.gz
67 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.3/postgresql-7.2.3.tar.gz
48 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.1/postgresql-opt-7.2.1.tar.gz
45 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.1/postgresql-docs-7.2.1.tar.gz
45 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.1/postgresql-base-7.2.1.tar.gz
41 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.1.3/postgresql-7.1.3.tar.gz
36 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3/postgresql-7.3.tar.gz
35 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta1.tar.bz2
31 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta1.tar.gz
31 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-base-7.3.2.tar.gz
31 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.2/postgresql-7.2.2.tar.gz
29 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta3.tar.gz
28 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta4.tar.gz
27 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta4.tar.bz2
27 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-docs-7.3.2.tar.gz
27 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.1/postgresql-7.3.1.tar.gz
22 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta2.tar.bz2
21 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta3.tar.bz2
21 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2/postgresql-7.2.tar.gz
20 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta2.tar.gz
19 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta5.tar.bz2
19 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-test-7.3.2.tar.gz
19 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-opt-7.3.2.tar.gz
18 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta5.tar.gz
17 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-docs-7.4beta1.tar.bz2
16 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-docs-7.4beta4.tar.gz
15 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-docs-7.4beta3.tar.gz
15 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.1.3/postgresql-docs-7.1.3.tar.gz

Note that, in the case of FreeBSD ports, they download only base and opt:

PORTNAME?= postgresql
PORTVERSION?= 7.3.4
PORTREVISION= 1
CATEGORIES?= databases
MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_PGSQL}
MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= source/v${PORTVERSION}
DISTFILES= postgresql-base-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX} \
postgresql-opt-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX}

ignoring the rest ... which was the original intent of the split, to
reduce the amount that needs to be downloaded, as well as reduce what
needs to be re-downloaded on a failed download ...