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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Westermann (DWE) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Link t the souce code
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 13:42:54 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> Oh, so the current `tar x` knows to uncompress the file without any
> additional options?  I've been pointlessly adding 'z', 'j', 'a' for years ...

I wonder whether that's GNU-tar-specific.  But we have GNU-isms
elsewhere, eg we removed references to "gmake" years ago.  If someone
is dealing with a tar program that needs the extra option, they
probably know what to do.

> That means we can remove the `gunzip` line and replace it with nothing.
> WFM ...

WFM too.  The other thing I wonder about is whether the example shouldn't
be assuming that you chose the .bz2 file instead of the .gz one.

			regards, tom lane

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