Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Increased company involvement

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 ...
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> 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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