Re: The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

From: felix(dot)quintgz(at)yahoo(dot)com
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.
Date: 2021-04-12 14:53:18
Message-ID: 4684611.1116502.1618239198320@mail.yahoo.com
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The entire enterprisedb site is blocked for me. It's an American company, so I imagine it's happening.
In the end I ended up downloading it from www.download3k.es. I checked the installer certificate and it seems to be correct.

Thank you very much to all

On Sunday, April 11, 2021, 11:38:43 AM GMT-4, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> wrote:

On 4/11/21 8:11 AM, felix(dot)quintgz(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
> The link https://www.postgresql.org/download/ in the PostgreSQL Downloads section, Windows, redirects to the page https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/. There are only two links in it and both redirect to the EnterpriseDB site. At no time is it clarified that it is a third party, even the link is outside the third party section.
> On the page https://www.postgresql.org/download/ there are only two more sections, the source code and third parties. Therefore the official source for downloading the installer is the link I put, I checked all the links on the site and nowhere is it offered to download the installer from the PostgreSQL site itself.
> The use of vpn is not legal in some countries, it is an option that can get me in trouble. The only option I have left is to search for a link in google and download it from some dubious source.

Another option, now that you know the situation, is to contact
EDB(https://www.enterprisedb.com/contact) and see if there are other
ways to get the software.

There is also the option of downloading the source:

https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/

from the community site and building Postgres.

>
>  On Sunday, April 11, 2021, 05:54:00 AM GMT-4, Stephan Knauss <pgsql(at)stephans-server(dot)de> wrote:
>
>  Hello Felix,
>
> On 11.04.2021 02:31, felix(dot)quintgz(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:
>> I see no reason why ask elsewhere first, the link for the installer download is on the Postgresql website, not elsewhere. The most logical thing to do is ask here first.
>
>> Because it is the Postgresql installer. https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads
>>
> It's unfortunate that your download is blocked. As indicated by others I
> am also wondering why you ask here for community support.
>
> You pointed to a download link which is controlled by a private company
> selling Postgresql services:
>
> Read about this company on an independent website:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnterpriseDB
>
> If you are looking for the download links of the PostgreSQL project, you
> can find it here:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/download/
>
>
> Based on your feedback, it is NOT the link listed on the PostgreSQL
> website, but on a 3rd party website. This is why you got the
> recommendation to check with them. You also got hints on how you could
> potentially work around the download restriction by using a VPN.
>
>
> Stephan
>
>

--
Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com

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