Re: No download of Windows binaries without registering?

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 20:11, Thomas Kellerer<spam_eater@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it seems that you cannot download PostgreSQL from the EnterpriseDB website
> without first registering with EnterpriseDB. I can somhow understand this
> cumbersome requirement for their own products, but I do not like the taste
> of it for the "plain" PostgreSQL builds. This doesn't sound right to me that
> I have to reveal my Company, Email *and* telephone number in order to
> download it.
> If one goes directly http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do
> this is not necessary (which is what I expect), but as far as I can tell,
> there is no direct link to that page.
> I would appreciate it very much if the download link for the "plain"
> PostgreSQL builds from http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/download.do
> would lead to the download page directly without the registration screen.

You can certainly get it without registering. The link from the
PostgreSQL download page points to
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgdownload.do, where no
registration is required.

How did you end up at the page above? Perhaps we have a link that
points to the wrong EDB page somewhere?


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