Re: PostgreSQL downloads compressed with bzip2 instead

How about both, until the tools become more readily availabe or bzip is
built into Winzip. With windows versoin 'around the corner' it will be
imiportant for the ease of installation for the usual windows joe to not
have to hunt around the web for a command line only version of bzip and
not use a gui (current situation for bzip).

Joel Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know that for many people, file size is not much of an issue, but for
> many others I suspect it is. Whether that is for reasons of storage
> space on smaller drives, like on current laptops, or older machines.
> Plus, it can cut down on bandwidth usage. And if that's not enough
> reason, then how about simply because there is a better, more efficient
> way to compress than Gzip ?
>
> Therefore, I think it would be nice to have PostgreSQL downloads
> available compressed with bzip2 instead of gzip. Starting with version
> 7.3.3 perhaps ?
>
> Cheers,
> Joel
>
>
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