| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement |
| Date: | 2005-05-03 18:09:14 |
| Message-ID: | 20050503150718.D53065@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Tue, 3 May 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>
>>
>> My primary desire is to avoid having to download several Meg of tar ball(s)
>> in order to add a module to an existing server ... if that can be
>> accomplished, then my main objection to adding things to the core CVS are
>> eliminated ...
>
> I guess I don't see the problem of the PostgreSQL distribution being 11 megs,
> heck even 50 megs. I know that some places don't have the bandwidth we do but
> it only takes me about 90 seconds to download the distribution.
Granted, "we in the West" are lucky ... but I know alot of ppl still on
dialup, and I believe there are still alot of places in Europe (or is/was
it just GB?) that pay per byte for their bandwidth ... even myself, at
home, on a cable modem, have at times found downloads to be atrociously
slow due to load n the network ...
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