Re: Old binary packages.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net]
> Sent: 20 January 2004 00:21
> To: Lamar Owen; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Old binary packages.
>
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary
> tree on the
> > ftp site, and was wondering what the group thought about
> purging old
> > binaries. What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last
> > minor release of each major version. Thus, I would remove 7.4, but
> > leave 7.4.1. The space taken by binaries is significant
> (about 1GB at
> > this point). Since we are keeping all source releases (although I
> > would question that, since we use CVS), keeping all the binaries
> > around is just a space waster, IMHO.
>
> Unless you know that someone is actually running out of
> space, I think it would be better to keep past releases
> around. I've needed them more often than you would think.

On that note, new mirror providers often comment on how small our ftp
area is compared to most others. I've *never* heard a complaint about
the size.

Regards, Dave.