From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>,
        "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>,
        "Daniel Westermann (DWE)" <daniel.westermann@dbi-services.com>,
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Subject: Re: Link t the souce code
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> 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 year=
s ...

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