Re: programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

Andrew Hammond wrote:
> On 4/9/07, CAJ CAJ <pguser(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond
>> <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> > I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given
>> > major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing
>> > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or trying to
>> connect to ftp
>> > (which is invariably timing out on me today. Is that box getting
>> > hammered or something?) and doing the parsing that? Both approaches
>> > feel quite awkward to me.
>>
>> Use wget to download via HTTP (added recently). Probably wise to add a
>> couple mirrors in your script.
>
> I'm not asking how to download stuff. I'm asking how to figure out the
> current release number for a given major.minor. I thought that was
> clear in my original post, but I guess not. For example, how do I
> determine (programmatically) the lastest version of 8.1.

Currently you can't without parsing pages.

> I'm also interested in a clever way to select one of the "close"
> mirrors at random for downloading via http. However I had planned to
> hold that question until I'd solved the first issue.

You might find this of use: http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors.xml. It's
updated regularly, so the mirrors should all have test OK within the
last 48 hours.

Regards, Dave.