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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Add AIX on the PostgreSQL Download page
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From: "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>
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On 9/7/21 10:57 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>=20
>=20
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 3:26 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se
> <mailto:daniel@yesql.se>> wrote:
>=20
>     > On 7 Sep 2021, at 16:10, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org
>     <mailto:jkatz@postgresql.org>> wrote:

>     > I'd be more open to this if the packages themselves were hosted o=
n
>     > community infrastructure and were consistent with the rest of the=

>     > packaging projects.
>=20
>     That seems a high bar to cross given that we don=E2=80=99t host mac=
OS,
>     Windows and the
>     BSD=E2=80=99s today but link to those.
>=20
>=20
> I agree.

It doesn't mean we need to continue to exacerbate the situation by
linking to downloads that we have little control over.

For example, what happens when the external downloads are unavailable?
We had a recent incident where this exact scenario happened. There are
now some reporting mechanisms in place to handle that scenario, but
ultimately it comes back to "PostgreSQL is unavailable for download."

>     > Right now I'm -1 on this; additionally, I'm
>     > generally -1 to adding more additional offsite links to downloads=
=2E
>=20
>     Unrelated but semi-related, if we don=E2=80=99t want new links we s=
hould
>     probably
>     remove the Solaris download link which doesn=E2=80=99t even link to=
 downloadable
>     packages.
>=20
>=20
> +1=20

IIRC we had left that up so we could sunset it and provide "forwarding
information." Given it's been ~1 year, we could likely remove it.

Jonathan


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