Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B4C64FCE2 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:42:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 74810-02 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:42:39 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-gx0-f24.google.com (mail-gx0-f24.google.com [209.85.217.24]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1AF64FCCA for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:42:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: by gxk5 with SMTP id 5so11236360gxk.19 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.112.17 with SMTP id p17mr1133860ybm.109.1221738158131; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.156.1 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:42:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <937d27e10809180442r75e34951uc091a28135c9e465@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:42:38 +0100 From: "Dave Page" To: "Chander Ganesan" Subject: Re: Download links Cc: "Tom Lane" , "Andrew Sullivan" , pgsql-www@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <48D23B7E.5080104@otg-nc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <937d27e10808110203l790a9c3eud97fdde42f70b92f@mail.gmail.com> <48BC5B03.2060400@otg-nc.com> <937d27e10809011456i3b74004ejf02e8adb26ec8338@mail.gmail.com> <48CD0F6E.1060401@otg-nc.com> <20080915150524.GG5607@commandprompt.com> <48D17A38.1000208@otg-nc.com> <29492.1221689108@sss.pgh.pa.us> <48D181EC.3040204@otg-nc.com> <937d27e10809180039x710a1229ja28c81cb9b199db3@mail.gmail.com> <48D23B7E.5080104@otg-nc.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200809/116 X-Sequence-Number: 15825 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Chander Ganesan wrote: > My apologies. I just went through all the links, and the only page with the > registration questions is the EDB PostgreSQL Plus installer > (http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/postgres_plus/download.do), which is > linked to from the /download page . While completion of the form isn't > required (and to be clear, I've never intimated that that info was > required), it is presented for every download of PG+ . Postgres Plus is our commercial distribution - and yes, we do request registration for that. Postgres Plus is *not* what the PostgreSQL downloads link to however (though there is a link in the 'third party distributions' section). > That being said, I really don't have any objections to the EDB links for the > /download pages for the community stuff, though IMHO, the community should > be distro specific (.rpm, .deb, etc.) packages over the EDB supplied > one-click packages.... The reason why they are ordered as they are is explained in more detail in a separate thread - but essentially it's because the people that need most help figuring out what they need to download are the ones that most benefit from one-click packages. Those that don't need the help, are also those that are more able to figure out what combination of RPMs/DEBs/Ports/whatever they need, and know that that type of package is what they want. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com