Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> Barring the discovery of any major new bugs, the core committee has
> agreed to release 7.4RC1 on Monday. Time to get those last-minute
> fixes in place.
>
> I currently have the following issues on my radar screen:
>
> Force GRANT/REVOKE by superuser to act as though owner of object?
> Change libpgtcl to use ByteArray for lo_read/lo_write (ljb's patch)
> Add option for parallelism limit in make check (Andrew Dunstan's
> patch) rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli
>
> plus various minor documentation fixes. Not much there...
>
> BTW, 7.4 final will be as early as the following Monday if no
> problems are detected. We will decide on a week-to-week basis
> whether we are ready to release final or not.

Any chance of putting up a torrent for it? I'd be happy to host, but
I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow :)

Cheers,
D
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Barring the discovery of any major new bugs, the core committee has
> > agreed to release 7.4RC1 on Monday. Time to get those last-minute
> > fixes in place.
> >
> > I currently have the following issues on my radar screen:
> >
> > Force GRANT/REVOKE by superuser to act as though owner of object?
> > Change libpgtcl to use ByteArray for lo_read/lo_write (ljb's patch)
> > Add option for parallelism limit in make check (Andrew Dunstan's
> > patch) rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli
> >
> > plus various minor documentation fixes. Not much there...
> >
> > BTW, 7.4 final will be as early as the following Monday if no
> > problems are detected. We will decide on a week-to-week basis
> > whether we are ready to release final or not.
>
> Any chance of putting up a torrent for it? I'd be happy to host, but
> I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow :)

Put up a what ... ?

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote:
>
> > Any chance of putting up a torrent for it? I'd be happy to host, but
> > I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow :)
>
> Put up a what ... ?

Google for "BitTorrent". It's a pretty darn cool app but I don't
think the PG source tarball is really big enough to be worth the
trouble... It's great for things like CD images though.

-Doug

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:51:24PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote:
> >
> > > Any chance of putting up a torrent for it? I'd be happy to
> > > host, but I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow
> > > :)
> >
> > Put up a what ... ?
>
> Google for "BitTorrent". It's a pretty darn cool app but I don't
> think the PG source tarball is really big enough to be worth the
> trouble... It's great for things like CD images though.

It's big enough that it'd be nice to be able to distribute the load a
little :)

Cheers,
D
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phone: +1 510 893 6100 cell: +1 415 235 3778