Re: Optimization levels when compiling PostgreSQL...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc(at)samurai(dot)com]
> Sent: 10 September 2002 05:58
> To: Sean Chittenden
> Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Optimization levels when compiling
> PostgreSQL...
>
>
> Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> writes:
> > Has there been any talk of doing incremental -snapshots of the code
> > base?
>
> I don't really see the point. Snapshots of development code
> are available from CVS anyway -- and if you're going to be
> running a pre-alpha version of a relational database, I don't
> think that knowledge of CVS is an onerous requirement.
>
> At any rate, the problem with releasing snapshots is that the
> system catalogs would change so often that upgrading between
> snapshots would be a headache. i.e. the changes required to
> upgrade from a 2 week old development snapshot to a current
> snapshot would still be non-trivial, significantly reducing
> the usefulness of snapshots, IMHO.

Snapshots can be found here: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/

Regards, Dave.