From: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu>
Cc: Postgres-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Help speeding up delete
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:56:32 -0600
Message-ID: <1132242992.3582.98.camel@state.g2switchworks.com> (raw)
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On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 19:40, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Perhaps we should put a link on the home page underneath LATEST RELEASEs
> > saying
> > 7.2: de-supported
> >
> > with a link to a scary note along the lines of the above.
> >
> > ISTM that there are still too many people on older releases.
> >
> > We probably need an explanation of why we support so many releases (in
> > comparison to licenced software) and a note that this does not imply the
> > latest releases are not yet production (in comparison to MySQL or Sybase
> > who have been in beta for a very long time).
>
> By the way, is anyone interested in creating some sort of online
> repository on pgsql.org or pgfoundry where we can keep statically
> compiled pg_dump/all for several platforms for 8.1?
>
> That way if someone wanted to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1, they can just
> grab the latest dumper from the website, dump their old database, then
> upgrade easily.
>
> In my experience not many pgsql admins have test servers or the skills
> to build up test machines with the latest pg_dump, etc. (Seriously.)
> In fact, few realise at all that they should use the 8.1 dumper.
I would especially like such a thing available as an RPM. A
pgsql-8.1-clienttools.rpm or something like that, with psql, pg_dump,
pg_restore, and what other command line tools you can think of that
would help.
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