Re: Old binary packages. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Old binary packages.
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Msg-id 10420.1074545628@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Old binary packages.  (Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>)
Responses Re: Old binary packages.  (Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>)
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Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu> writes:
> I am looking at the possibility of cleaning up the binary tree on the ftp 
> site, and was wondering what the group thought about purging old binaries.  
> What I was thinking would be to remove all but the last minor release of each
> major version.  Thus, I would remove 7.4, but leave 7.4.1.

I concur with Josh Drake's thought --- leave releases that are less
than, perhaps, six months old, even if they have been superseded in
their series.  Superseded releases that are older than that could be
dispensed with.
        regards, tom lane


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