Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C382E2DC0 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:07:04 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76375-02 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:06:53 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.191]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC512E2D53 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:07:00 -0400 (AST) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y18so384405gvf.7 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.58.5 with SMTP id g5mr525336yba.89.1204898817926; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:06:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.96.5 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:06:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <937d27e10803070606sfef98e5w87ef5d6ca6c5896d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:06:57 +0000 From: "Dave Page" To: "User Scrappy" Subject: Re: Split ftp distributions Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" , pgsql-www@postgresql.org, "Joshua D. Drake" , "Bruce Momjian" In-Reply-To: <20080307095752.S3505@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080306140012.6c932573@commandprompt.com> <96EE331B4A336E1B4AD2ACE5@ganymede.hub.org> <937d27e10803070055v39c54cf0jc74089293643b2f4@mail.gmail.com> <200803071021.53050.peter_e@gmx.net> <937d27e10803070128u1603f368x663991ec2f7e0425@mail.gmail.com> <20080307095752.S3505@ganymede.hub.org> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200803/133 X-Sequence-Number: 14252 On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:59 PM, User Scrappy 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. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK Ltd: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL UK 2008 Conference: http://www.postgresql.org.uk