From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <200803071419.m27EJc209592@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Split ftp distributions
In-Reply-To: <937d27e10803070606sfef98e5w87ef5d6ca6c5896d@mail.gmail.com>
To: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:19:38 -0500 (EST)
CC: User Scrappy <scrappy@hub.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>,
	pgsql-www@postgresql.org, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:59 PM, User Scrappy <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Dave Page wrote:
> >
> > > We do tend to do that for all the stuff we deploy now. The main
> > > exception to the rule is Marc's stuff that's been in place for many
> > > years which is run from his own, largely undocumented scripts (hint
> > > hint :-) ).
> >
> > Tell me what you want to see documented in ~pgsql/bin/mk-snapshot ...
> > there isn't anything special in it ... its very self-explanatory (cvs
> > export this, make that, move the result here) ... there is no voodoo
> > involved here, or secret incantations ... and what runs, and paths to
> > them, are plainly available in cron ...
> >
> 
> I'm not specifically referring to that, but the various scripts that
> evolved in the early days. A good example is the archives system which
> hasn't really been worked on by anyone except you and very recently
> Alvaro.
> 
> What we should have though is a brief description on PMT of each
> service that exists, what scripts it involves, what user id it runs
> under etc.

Yea, that seems like it would be useful.

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