| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lowen(at)pari(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Old binary packages. |
| Date: | 2004-01-20 00:20:45 |
| Message-ID: | 200401200120.45278.peter_e@gmx.net |
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Lamar Owen wrote:
> I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the
> ftp site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old
> binaries. What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last
> minor release of each major version. Thus, I would remove 7.4, but
> leave 7.4.1. The space taken by binaries is significant (about 1GB
> at this point). Since we are keeping all source releases (although I
> would question that, since we use CVS), keeping all the binaries
> around is just a space waster, IMHO.
Unless you know that someone is actually running out of space, I think
it would be better to keep past releases around. I've needed them more
often than you would think.
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