| From: | "Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: archiving binary releases |
| Date: | 2009-01-10 14:24:01 |
| Message-ID: | 7be3f35d0901100624g16a1099dh809d7b24ab2a7827@mail.gmail.com |
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Marc,
> I'm going to clean out the binary archives, unless someone has a really
> compelling reason why we need to keep binaries from 7.0? Or why we need to
> keep RC / Beta binaries?
>
> My thought was to keep the last version on each branch, up until what we
> officially support, and get rid of the 'interum releases' (ie. v8.3RC1) ...
I see one very, very compelling reason:
- crash on old machine running any of that releases. The installation
of PostgreSQL gets trashed by something (wild running virus i.e.)
To access the files within pg_data you need the binaries of that
version. In that stress situation (crash, virus, trashed program
files) you are not really eager to compile PostgreSQL.
So I recommend to keep those binaries. Storage is cheap.
Harald
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