Re: pginstaller policy?

Jan-Peter Seifert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder whether pginstaller is still being maintained for 8.3 and 8.2, because there are no binaries for the current
minorversions yet and because of this comment from January 10ths newsletter: 
>
> ---------------------------
> In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml, update Windows installation
>   notes.  pginstaller isn't used anymore, in favor of the one-click
>   installers.  Make it clear that we support Windows 2000 and newer
>   with the native port, instead of first saying we support NT4 and
>   then saying we don't.
> ---------------------------
>
> The web page ( http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows ) does not say that pginstaller is suspended (yet).
>
> It's just that - as far as I know - the clusters initialized by the one-click installer and pginstaller are
incompatiblewith each other (timestamp). So a whole pg_dump/pg_restore session for each 'pginstaller' server would be
necessaryin order to update to a newer 'one-click only' minor version ... 
>
> So ... is pginstaller dead or just delayed this time?
>
> Could you tell me, please?

I talked to Dave Page and it seems the pginstaller (non-bitRock) Win32
installers were _not_ moved from their beta holding area to the download
section.

They have just been moved and the URLs are now:

    ftp://developer.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v8.3.11/win32/
    ftp://developer.postgresql.org/pub/binary/v8.2.17/win32/

They will propogate to the main download pages in 24 hours.

Thanks for the report, and sorry for the problem.

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