X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC9A9DCD2F for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:39:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19363-08 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:39:41 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B99D59DCF9E for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:39:36 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAUMdbWQ001831; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:39:37 -0500 (EST) To: jd@commandprompt.com cc: Robert Bernier , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases In-reply-to: <1133390510.6635.70.camel@jd.commandprompt.com> References: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE6C7CAC@algol.sollentuna.se> <20051130143814.R1077@ganymede.hub.org> <200511301731.18814.robert.bernier5@sympatico.ca> <1133390510.6635.70.camel@jd.commandprompt.com> Comments: In-reply-to "Joshua D. Drake" message dated "Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:41:49 -0800" Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:39:37 -0500 Message-ID: <1830.1133390377@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.004 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.004] X-Spam-Score: 0.004 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200511/225 X-Sequence-Number: 8940 "Joshua D. Drake" writes: > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:31 -0500, Robert Bernier wrote: >> I'm for keeping them in some sort of archive for historical reasons. My feeling is that somewhere down the road this will be a big deal. > We always have the CVS repo, so if we remove them... not big deal. It's not necessarily that easy to rebuild old releases --- for instance, modern versions of bison will spit up on our older grammar files, due to carelessness about semicolons; and newer C compilers may complain about things that older ones let pass, too. Unless we're feeling short of disk space on the server, I'm for leaving them there somewhere. But definitely mark them old and not-recommended. regards, tom lane