7.1 question

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#1Tim Barnard
tbarnard@povn.com

Could someone tell what the differences are between the 7.1beta4 and "snapshot" tarballs? To try out 7.1, which of the two should I get from the ftp site?

Thanks!

Tim

#2Tim Barnard
tbarnard@povn.com
In reply to: Tim Barnard (#1)
Re: 7.1 question

Thanks for the clarification :-)

Tim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: "Tim Barnard" <tbarnard@povn.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 question

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Tim Barnard writes:

Could someone tell what the differences are between the 7.1beta4 and
"snapshot" tarballs? To try out 7.1, which of the two should I get
from the ftp site?

The snapshot is built daily (nightly?) from whatever happens to be in the
source repository at the time. Once in a while a snapshot is effectively
relabeled "betaX" and announced. Aside from this non-difference, the beta
is at least looked at by a few humans to make sure that all the files are
there, whereas the snapshot is done fully automatically and might be
horribly broken (in theory, of course ;-) ).

If you are new to "trying out", getting the latest official beta might
make you feel slightly better, but the quality of the snapshots has been
equally high lately.

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/

#3Peter Eisentraut
peter_e@gmx.net
In reply to: Tim Barnard (#1)
Re: 7.1 question

Tim Barnard writes:

Could someone tell what the differences are between the 7.1beta4 and
"snapshot" tarballs? To try out 7.1, which of the two should I get
from the ftp site?

The snapshot is built daily (nightly?) from whatever happens to be in the
source repository at the time. Once in a while a snapshot is effectively
relabeled "betaX" and announced. Aside from this non-difference, the beta
is at least looked at by a few humans to make sure that all the files are
there, whereas the snapshot is done fully automatically and might be
horribly broken (in theory, of course ;-) ).

If you are new to "trying out", getting the latest official beta might
make you feel slightly better, but the quality of the snapshots has been
equally high lately.

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/