| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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| To: | Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: beta3 |
| Date: | 2001-11-21 03:40:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20011120223957.K63362-100000@earth.hub.org |
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On 20 Nov 2001, Trond Eivind [iso-8859-1] Glomsrd wrote:
> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
>
> > > If I'd downloaded this thing over a decent DSL or cable modem
> > > line, bzip2 would actually be a net loss in total
> > > download + uncompress time.
> >
> > I think the download time is a lot more important to people than
> > the uncompression time. A savings of nearly 1.5 Megs is
> > significant, no matter what type of line you are on.
>
> And for CD space (I'd love bzipped binaries), ftp space, etc (not only
> for mirrors, but for distributions shipping postgresql and mirrors
> thereeof.
Huh? You are advocating adding to the ftp space required? *raised
eyebrow*
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