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From: Chander Ganesan <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Download links
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:54:23 -0400
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> I had to spend a bit of time hunting around to find the latest release  
>> of 8.2.x, in fact, it's not really "indicated" anywhere that "old"  
>> versions are there.  Looking at the /download page, I cannot find a  
>> single reference to older versions (the big advantage to the old  
>> format).  One has to hunt around until they find the "source code" link  
>> to locate an older version of postgresql.
>>     
>
> There's no usefulness whatsoever to the old versions, so why should they
> be linked to?
>
>   
There are many organizations that have PostgreSQL's older versions 
deployed, and have yet to upgrade to the latest major release...but 
still have need to download the latest patch release to upgrade their 
installation.  IMHO, for this reason the older versions are extremely 
important.  Hence the need to link to them.

All I'm saying is that there is a major decrease in usability of the 
site when it's not clearly documented where someone can get the latest 
patch version for their release.

-- 
Chander Ganesan
Open Technology Group, Inc.
One Copley Parkway, Suite 210
Morrisville, NC  27560
919-463-0999/877-258-8987
http://www.otg-nc.com

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