Dave Page wrote:
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Sent: 01 December 2005 17:01
To: Peter Eisentraut
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Euler Taveira de Oliveira;
Richard Huxton; Robert Treat; Magnus Hagander; Marc G.
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Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [HACKERS] Upcoming PG re-releases
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 11:35 schrieb Euler Taveira
de Oliveira:
What about an museum.postgresql.org to keep the old releases?
That gave me a good laugh, but there is something to be
said about moving all
no longer supported releases (according to the criteria
that are being
discussed) to an unmirrored site, say, archive.postgresql.org.
That would be fairly trivial ... let me add it to the 'todo
list' ... I
take it that it would be safe to relegate the /pub/source/OLD
stuff there
too?
Not so trivial to put behind a web interface or the download tracker
though. Is it really necessary to have a separate archive downloads
site? It's not like the old ones get in the way, or cost anything other
than disk space on the mirrors to store (and I've only ever heard mirror
admins say how small our site is compared to many others!).
Plus of course, weren't we trying to reduce the number of VMs/sites?
Agreed. I see no virtue in this at all. If we continue to make stuff
available it must be because someone will need it. I can see that
happening if some catastrophe happens on an old system, in which case
the person hunting is likely to need to find it easily and possibly fast.
The network traffic involved in mirroring something that doesn't change
is usually trivial, and disk space seems to be at most a few $ per Gb
these days, so surely this is not a resource issue.
cheers
andrew
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