Re: Postgresql Vb.1 beta 2 win binary

> Hi Magnus, thanks for the reply. My inquiry was whether any
> other person was experiencing difficulties with a download
> and was aimed at trying to figure out for myself what might
> be happening. It was not a help request or any form of
> criticism. However, in answer to your first questions
> 1 No error message the download just hangs, doesn't even time
> out. Have tried on Firefox, IE and Filezilla.

It works fine for me from the three Australian mirrors. *however* they
seem to be unfriendly to my firewall - I can't get them with firefox
from inside of it. But I can get it from the outside.
Try the Swedish mirror, that one works from both sides of my fw.

> 2 No file seems to be available on ftp, or bit torrent.

They're all ftp links... The web is used only to select which mirror to
use.
No torrents, that's correct - we only provide those for release versions
that get a lot moer downloads.

> In regard to your comment about "equally lacking in
> information" to my post script it is both offensive, arrogant
> and unhelpful. If that is the attitude of the PostgreSQL
> community to new adopters then we will stay with MySQL and
> wait until their PostGIS extensions catch up.

My apologies, I proably overreacted a bit. In a half-hearted defent I'll
say that I did read *your* post about the sanme way - if you re-read it,
you'll probably see why. And I still stand by that the reason for it not
being responded to may be a lack of information. That said, yeah, there
are better ways to say that.

//Magnus

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net]
> > Sent: 03 October 2005 18:24
> > To: John Craddock; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Postgresql Vb.1 beta 2 win binary
> >
> >
> > > Hello all, Is anyone having trouble downloading the Win 32 binary
> > > announced on September 18? I am in Australia and cannot download
> > > from any of the Australian or US mirrors.
> > > Would like to receive confirmation whether or not I am the stupid
> > > one!!!
> >
> > So what error msg do you get? Do you get a file an dit's
> broken, or do
> > you not get a file at all? Browser error or webserver error? Or ftp
> > server error?
> >
> > > P.S hope at least to receive a reply on this one (my second
> > > post) as the first one on August 22 about installation
> went begging.
> > > Great introduction to the world of PostgreSQL!!!
> >
> > Don't reacall anything in particular, but if it was equally
> lacking in
> > information that might be at least part of the reason.
> >
> >
> > //Magnus
> >
>