Re: Bad link for win32/latest

From: "Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Magnus Hagander" <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, "Robert Treat" <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Bad link for win32/latest
Date: 2008-09-26 11:46:10
Message-ID: 7be3f35d0809260446j144ebd1dv4742cfb1edc9d2e4@mail.gmail.com
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my vote:

>>> I can never remember, on what schedule do we remove old versions? Did we
>>> say "keep current and one older"? In that case, there is some removing
>>> to do as well... In binary, for example, we have 8.2.5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and
>>> 10 ATM - that just seems like a waste of space to me. For source, we
>>> have 8.2.7, 9 and 10, and in the 8.3 series 8.3.1, 3 and 4. We also have
>>> source/OLD which has 8.3.0, 8.2.5 and 8.2.6. All in all, seems we're not
>>> very consistent :-(

I recommend to keep all versions including binaries available. Space is cheap.

Finding a policy is hard.

Finding an old version because only available backup are some rescued
pg_data directories from a harddrive that ended its live in the middle
of a night in the middle of a national holiday is hard.

Of course, officially x.y.n releases are compatible for different n.
But in an emergency I would feel better when not needing this
compatibility.

Harald

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