Re: beta3

On Lun 19 Nov 2001 22:49, you wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> > > [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Peter
> > > Eisentraut Sent: Monday, 19 November 2001 10:40 PM
> > > To: Marc G. Fournier
> > > Cc: Tom Lane; Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-development; Thomas Lockhart
> > > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] beta3
> > >
> > > Marc G. Fournier writes:
> > > > Okay, how do we want to address/fix/test this?
> > >
> > > Assuming that we don't want to make sweeping changes to the overall
> > > procedure, I suggest this:
> > >
> > > 1.  The postgres.tar.gz and man.tar.gz documentation tarballs required
> > > for a release used to be at ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/doc/.  The
> > > new file system location of this directory needs to be determined.
> > >
> > > 2.  Some postgres.tar.gz and man.tar.gz files need to be put there.
> >
> > Just a thought:  Doesn't everyone have bzip2 these days?  Many large
> > projects come bz2-only even these days.  Is there a good reason to stick
> > with the extra-large tar.gz format?
>
> Cause not everyone has bzip2 ... Solaris comes with gzip, doesn't come
> with bzip ... not sure how many other OS, but even FreeBSD requiresyou to
> compile bzip from ports, it isn't part of hte operating system ...

Go to www.sunfreeware.com and get bzip2 for Solaris.
I even recompiled the new tar with support for bzip2! :-)

Saludos... :-)

P.D.: bzip2 is slow, but you can get a real small package with it, even 
though PostgreSQL isn't that big, if we compare it with KDE or Mozilla.

-- 
Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera,
si podés usar PostgreSQL?
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