X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9878E14B2877 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:23:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34016-01 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:23:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from curie.credativ.org (credativ.com [217.160.209.18]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB4A314B2824 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:23:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by curie.credativ.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EA055BCC; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:23:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.credativ.de (pD9500869.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.80.8.105]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by curie.credativ.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D250555BC8; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:23:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bell.credativ.de (bell.credativ.de [172.26.14.16]) by www.credativ.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459501C000B; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:23:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Eisentraut To: Josh Berkus Subject: Re: Request for download stats on release Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:23:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: "Dave Page" , "PostgreSQL www" References: <200408110906.30050.josh@agliodbs.com> In-Reply-To: <200408110906.30050.josh@agliodbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408111923.23566.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS at credativ.com X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_NJABL, RCVD_IN_SORBS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200408/73 X-Sequence-Number: 4848 Am Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 18:06 schrieb Josh Berkus: > Oh. Then there isn't any way to get a reasonably accurate download count? These download counts would be completely random anyway. Most people get their dose of PostgreSQL via an OS distributor. (Just look how often someone asks a question about PostgreSQL 7.2.1; these are the people stuck on Debian "stable".) And even they are unable to count the downloads, because they have mirrors, and people mirror the mirrors, and put mirrors on their laptops. Additionally, PostgreSQL is in or near the default installation in many distributions, so even if you knew the install count, you don't know anything about who actually uses it. If you want some amusing (nonabsolute) usage statistics, I recommend . -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/