Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A1C2E2F08 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:12:40 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06246-04 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:12:36 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0332E2F1E for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 18:12:36 -0400 (AST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m26MCZs24962; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:12:35 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200803062212.m26MCZs24962@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Split ftp distributions In-Reply-To: <20080306141055.3ff10838@commandprompt.com> To: "Joshua D. Drake" Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:12:35 -0500 (EST) CC: "Marc G. Fournier" , PostgreSQL www X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/104 X-Sequence-Number: 14223 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:08:06 -0500 (EST) > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > On a serious note the reason I would assume that it is not done is > > > that only one person knows how and it isn't myself, stefan, dave or > > > magnus. > > > > Well, then I propose we give more people power to do such things. > > I don't think it is the power that is the problem. It is the utter > lack of documentation. I know that a couple in the IN list above have > the security clearance... but reverse engineering production systems > based on zero knowledge of operation is not a fun or safe thing to do. Well, what suggestion do you have? -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +