On Tue, February 13, 2007 01:45, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Most of the core team is convinced that the postgresql-foo tarballs are > useless, but Marc insists on keeping them. But since they are nearly > useless, no one tests them, so it is not surprising that they don't > work.
Well, hurray for Marc! I'm writing from a country where "broadband" is still measured in kilobits per second, and the government censors (and causes the various companies and government monopolies along the way to censor) Internet traffic, keeping the ICT infrastructure slow and unreliable. International bandwidth comes at premium prices for those who can afford serious connections. Much hardware on sale here is either counterfeit or export products that failed quality-control tests or otherwise "fell of the boat." Downloads are sometimes quietly corrupted, without any errors at the TCP level. Long-lived connections often time out. Not having to download half again the size of a "-base" tarball can make a difference in those situations, as can not having to download it all in one single large file. Jeroen ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
