From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Steven Winfield <Steven(dot)Winfield(at)cantabcapital(dot)com>, "pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Source code in .tar.xz format? |
Date: | 2018-10-12 13:44:45 |
Message-ID: | e1e90b3a-30dd-1990-7f5e-d70a29934dd3@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 12/10/2018 12:34, Steven Winfield wrote:
> Have you considered making xz-compressed source tarballs available in
> file browser (https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source)?
>
> The tarfile for v11rc1 compresses to 15.5MB (with -9) - nearly half the
> size of the gzip-compressed file that is currently on the browser.
>
> Modern versions of tar will automatically decompress .tar.xz files with
> the usual “tar -xf <filename>” invocation.
My records show that this had been discussed about 5 years ago. The
idea was to drop bz2 and add xz. The problem was that older operating
systems (such as CentOS 5 and perhaps older Solaris) don't support xz,
so that would negatively affect some platforms.
In the meantime, people are already moving on from xz to lz ...
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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