Re: RFC: PostgreSQL Add-On Network

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 18:48, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>> 2010/1/8 Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>:
>>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 18:44, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>> The current set of active mirrors can always be found at
>>>> http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors.xml, so you can build URLs on the
>>>> mirror network using the protocol, host, port and path from the mirror
>>>> list, and then the relative path for the file.
>>> Or you can hit it off the mirror redirector on the website, which will
>>> then give you automatic download tracking.
>> Right, but you need the mirror ID for that iirc. Maybe we should add
>> that to the XML...
>
> That, or implement that "send me to a random mirror" feature. Or
> maybe the "send me to a random close mirror if available, or a random
> global if not" feature. :-)
>
> Either way, there's definitely room for some improvement there, but
> let's figure out what the exact needs are first :-)

well we could fairly trivially do that using DNS as well as in providing
sets of mirrors geographically spread out (like
us.mirrors.postgresql.org, eu.mirrors.postgresql.org) or whatever.

Stefan