Rich Ryan <postgres(at)weblynk(dot)com> writes:
> Instead of using CVS, will ftp'ing the postgresql.snapshot.tar.gz file do? I
> looked around for an explanation of what this file is, but didn't find any.
That's a nightly snapshot of current development sources --- not of the
stable REL6_5 branch, which is what you probably want. I thought Marc
had made up a beta-test tarball of 6.5.3 recently, but I don't see one
on the FTP server...
regards, tom lane