Re: PostgreSQL web site

Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Also,
>
> I'd like to see PDA version of web site and archives. Current design is
> very inconvenient.

Egad... what a pain. Please feel free to work one up for us, but a PDA
version is pretty much a pain in the arse for little benefit.

Sincerely,

Josuha D. Drake

>
> Oleg
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>>>> Just a suggestion, why don't the web admins turn mod_gzip on? There
>>>> are no downsides, and it would likely make a fairly large impact on
>>>> bandwidth bills. Think of all the people browsing the PG
>>> documentation
>>>> (myself included). Not only would bandwidth bills go down,
>>>> responsiveness on the docs would be higher as well.
>>>>
>>>> Even if there is no bandwidth saving (if your b/w is free for
>>>> instance), I'm of the opinion that mod_gzip and mod_deflate
>>> should be
>>>> used unless there is a compelling reason not to.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I thought it was worth
>>>> mentioning on the off chance it hadn't.
>>>
>>> Actually that is a very good question... why are we not using
>>> mod_deflate?
>>
>> Good question. It's definitly worth investigating. It does add load to
>> the server, but not all that much. And if we have the space (need to
>> check that on some of the boxen) we could set up pre-compressed static
>> images and that argument would go away..
>>
>> //Magnus
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>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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