postgresql website

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Oliver Mueschke wrote:

hi there,

frankly i would say that the mirrored postgresql website is the best
reason to avoid postgresql. (i tested the german and the uk sites.) most
of the links don't work at all or show "interesting" error messages. all
this would be of minor interest if there was a way to access the main
(and working?) postgresql url.

Anything that requires "special server handling" is supposed to
have a link back to the main server (ie. the third party page)....if you
notice anything amiss, *please* let us know so that we can fix it.

I just fixed the third party link so that it points back to the
main site...if there is anything else, please do let me know.

Well, humour me for a second.. I am just setting up a Canadian Mirror.. So
far most of the links seem to keep working, and the rest of the links
actually take you to the main postgres site..(For the message search's etc.)

Check to see if you find any links not working, and let me know :> Saves me
the work..
I THINK I checked em all...

Oliver Mueschke wrote:

hi there,

frankly i would say that the mirrored postgresql website is the best
reason to avoid postgresql. (i tested the german and the uk sites.) most
of the links don't work at all or show "interesting" error messages. all
this would be of minor interest if there was a way to access the main
(and working?) postgresql url.

regards
oliver

ps: i use postgresql since 6.2.1 and i really do like it.

--- example output of third party and examples search engine ---------

Based on PostgreSQL v6.0, this page uses the C API for the search
engine, as well as the insertion screen, and PHP/FI for the detail
screens for each of the records.

The engine is currently under construction so there would be errors
specifically when clicking on the more link in the generated list

0 total hits since Wednesday July 8. 0 hits today.
No Previous Access to this page
Page was last updated on Thursday
December 25, 1997 at 8:44:00
Overview.phtml: dbmopen: 3 [File open error],
13 [Permission denied] on line 84

Overview.phtml: Unable to create

/var/log/apache/1000/mirrors_postgres95_html_software_Overview.phtml.log
on line 84
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Unix Administration - WebSite Hosting - Network Services - Programming
Wizard Internet Services - TechnoWizard Computers - Wizard Tower
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(604) 589-0037 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
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Oooops... better post the link..
http://unix.wizard.ca/postgres

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, The Web Administrator wrote:

Well, humour me for a second.. I am just setting up a Canadian Mirror.. So
far most of the links seem to keep working, and the rest of the links
actually take you to the main postgres site..(For the message search's etc.)

Check to see if you find any links not working, and let me know :> Saves me
the work..
I THINK I checked em all...

Actually, in defence of Oliver, the example he did point out was
valid...the third party page uses features that I have on my server, but
are not necessarily available on others (namely, PHP/FI) ... I've hard
coded that link back again...

Oliver Mueschke wrote:

hi there,

frankly i would say that the mirrored postgresql website is the best
reason to avoid postgresql. (i tested the german and the uk sites.) most
of the links don't work at all or show "interesting" error messages. all
this would be of minor interest if there was a way to access the main
(and working?) postgresql url.

regards
oliver

ps: i use postgresql since 6.2.1 and i really do like it.

--- example output of third party and examples search engine ---------

Based on PostgreSQL v6.0, this page uses the C API for the search
engine, as well as the insertion screen, and PHP/FI for the detail
screens for each of the records.

The engine is currently under construction so there would be errors
specifically when clicking on the more link in the generated list

0 total hits since Wednesday July 8. 0 hits today.
No Previous Access to this page
Page was last updated on Thursday
December 25, 1997 at 8:44:00
Overview.phtml: dbmopen: 3 [File open error],
13 [Permission denied] on line 84

Overview.phtml: Unable to create

/var/log/apache/1000/mirrors_postgres95_html_software_Overview.phtml.log
on line 84
-----------------------------

--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Michael - System Administrator Working in Cheap Canadian
Dollars
Unix Administration - WebSite Hosting - Network Services - Programming
Wizard Internet Services - TechnoWizard Computers - Wizard Tower
TechnoServices
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(604) 589-0037 Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

hi,

after the third party stuff being available via the german mirror i
noticed that the at least 4 or 5 of the 57 third party entries are junk.
the image buttons "Prev" and "Next" (to navigate the search result) are
shown w/o images.

the links to the html mirrorsites in poland and germany (embedded in
http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/html/sites.shtml) both
give directory listings of the mirroring hosts.

oliver

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Oliver Mueschke wrote:

hi there,

frankly i would say that the mirrored postgresql website is the best
reason to avoid postgresql. (i tested the german and the uk sites.) most
of the links don't work at all or show "interesting" error messages. all
this would be of minor interest if there was a way to access the main
(and working?) postgresql url.

Anything that requires "special server handling" is supposed to
have a link back to the main server (ie. the third party page)....if you
notice anything amiss, *please* let us know so that we can fix it.

I just fixed the third party link so that it points back to the
main site...if there is anything else, please do let me know.

Lots of links don't seem to work for me either from the UK mirror.
I've gone to user_gallery (which seems to take me back to the
main site, then tried the links to register, info-central, download
and cd-distribution. All gave "document contains no data" errors.

This mirroring seems a real pain to me... Why can't there just be
a set of links to mirrors in different countries like most sites
have????

Andrew

p.s. While I'm griping... Who made the sudden decision to mirror the
mailing lists onto News groups. The increase in spam has been dramatic...
We discussed this a year, maybe 2, ago and decided quite clearly NOT
to have a news service. I recall no discussion on the lists this time.
My personal preference would be to have a news service running off
a single machine (news.postgresql.org) so it doesn't get propagated
around Usenet, but is available for people to read with news software
should they so wish.

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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:

p.s. While I'm griping... Who made the sudden decision to mirror the
mailing lists onto News groups. The increase in spam has been dramatic...
We discussed this a year, maybe 2, ago and decided quite clearly NOT

Actually, the newsgroups are purely one-directional at this
time...mail to the lists goes out to the groups, but not vice-versa...spam
is not coming in through them, except if they are culling the groups for
email addresses...

Lots of links don't seem to work for me either from the UK mirror.
I've gone to user_gallery (which seems to take me back to the
main site, then tried the links to register, info-central, download
and cd-distribution. All gave "document contains no data" errors.

A few hours later... Register, now seems to work
The others don't...

While I'm at it....

From the main page, these links DO work, but when you click

cd_distribution, all the image links are broken

Andrew

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On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:

p.s. While I'm griping... Who made the sudden decision to mirror the
mailing lists onto News groups. The increase in spam has been dramatic...
We discussed this a year, maybe 2, ago and decided quite clearly NOT

Actually, the newsgroups are purely one-directional at this
time...mail to the lists goes out to the groups, but not vice-versa...spam
is not coming in through them, except if they are culling the groups for
email addresses...

Ah... Hadn't realised that - just noticed that the increase in spam seemed
to start at the same time...

Andrew

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EMAIL: (Work) martin@biochem.ucl.ac.uk (Home) andrew@stagleys.demon.co.uk
URL: http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/~martin
Tel: (Work) +44(0)171 419 3890 (Home) +44(0)1372 275775

At 8:07 AM 7/14/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Andrew Martin wrote:

p.s. While I'm griping... Who made the sudden decision to mirror the
mailing lists onto News groups. The increase in spam has been dramatic...
We discussed this a year, maybe 2, ago and decided quite clearly NOT

Actually, the newsgroups are purely one-directional at this
time...mail to the lists goes out to the groups, but not vice-versa...spam
is not coming in through them, except if they are culling the groups for
email addresses...

Which they are. I mean, sad to say, that's the only purpose for newsgroups
these days: A source for 57 million fresh e-mail addresses for MLMs to
sell. :-(

In other mailing lists, one can write [NONEWS] in one's heading to keep
one's post (and therefore email address) out of the newsgroups. Would this
be easy/feasible/hard with majordomo?

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