No download of Windows binaries without registering?
Hi,
it seems that you cannot download PostgreSQL from the EnterpriseDB website without first registering with EnterpriseDB. I can somhow understand this cumbersome requirement for their own products, but I do not like the taste of it for the "plain" PostgreSQL builds. This doesn't sound right to me that I have to reveal my Company, Email *and* telephone number in order to download it.
If one goes directly http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do this is not necessary (which is what I expect), but as far as I can tell, there is no direct link to that page.
I would appreciate it very much if the download link for the "plain" PostgreSQL builds from http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/download.do would lead to the download page directly without the registration screen.
Regards
Thomas
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 20:11, Thomas Kellerer<spam_eater@gmx.net> wrote:
Hi,
it seems that you cannot download PostgreSQL from the EnterpriseDB website
without first registering with EnterpriseDB. I can somhow understand this
cumbersome requirement for their own products, but I do not like the taste
of it for the "plain" PostgreSQL builds. This doesn't sound right to me that
I have to reveal my Company, Email *and* telephone number in order to
download it.
If one goes directly http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do
this is not necessary (which is what I expect), but as far as I can tell,
there is no direct link to that page.
I would appreciate it very much if the download link for the "plain"
PostgreSQL builds from http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/download.do
would lead to the download page directly without the registration screen.
You can certainly get it without registering. The link from the
PostgreSQL download page points to
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgdownload.do, where no
registration is required.
How did you end up at the page above? Perhaps we have a link that
points to the wrong EDB page somewhere?
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:11:58PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
If one goes directly http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do
this is not necessary (which is what I expect), but as far as I can tell,
there is no direct link to that page.
hum,
http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
seems to point there. Maybe the link there from:
http://www.postgresql.org/download/
could be clearer somehow?
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Sam http://samason.me.uk/
Thomas Kellerer schrieb:
If one goes directly http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do this is not necessary (which is what I expect), but as far as I can tell, there is no direct link to that page.
You get there from the official PostgreSQL download page:
<http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows>
Rainer
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 20:45, Sam Mason<sam@samason.me.uk> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:11:58PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
If one goes directly http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do
this is not necessary (which is what I expect), but as far as I can tell,
there is no direct link to that page.hum,
http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
seems to point there. Maybe the link there from:
Really? When i click that link, I get to the page that doesn't require
registration...
http://www.postgresql.org/download/
could be clearer somehow?
The link from there, for "Postgres Plus", also brings me to a page
that doesn't require registration..
Exactly which link do you click to get to the page that requires registration?
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Me: http://www.hagander.net/
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:58:17PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 20:45, Sam Mason<sam@samason.me.uk> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:11:58PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
If one goes directly http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do
this is not necessary (which is what I expect), but as far as I can tell,
there is no direct link to that page.hum,
http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
seems to point there.
Really? When i click that link, I get to the page that doesn't require
registration...
um, that's what I said isn't it? What I meant to say anyway was that
the link I gave contained a pretty prominent link to the page that
Thomas gave that doesn't require registration.
Exactly which link do you click to get to the page that requires
registration?
I didn't get any, that was the question I was trying to ask. Maybe I
should have been clearer somehow? :)
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Sam http://samason.me.uk/
Magnus Hagander wrote on 26.08.2009 20:37:
You can certainly get it without registering. The link from the
PostgreSQL download page points to
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgdownload.do, where no
registration is required.How did you end up at the page above? Perhaps we have a link that
points to the wrong EDB page somewhere?
A sorry, I did not follow the link from the Postgres page, but came from http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/download.do
Sorry for the confusion, I didn't realise the link from the postgresql.org site bypassed the registration screen.
Thomas
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 21:15, Sam Mason<sam@samason.me.uk> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:58:17PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 20:45, Sam Mason<sam@samason.me.uk> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:11:58PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
If one goes directly http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do
this is not necessary (which is what I expect), but as far as I can tell,
there is no direct link to that page.hum,
http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
seems to point there.
Really? When i click that link, I get to the page that doesn't require
registration...um, that's what I said isn't it? What I meant to say anyway was that
the link I gave contained a pretty prominent link to the page that
Thomas gave that doesn't require registration.
I'm probably too tired to multitask this much :-) Sorry, misread
things completely.
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