Re: About the partial tarballs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Do we have any data on how many people download the partial tarballs
> (-base, -opt, etc.)?  I have a feeling that more people are confused by
> them than use them.

on ftp.postgresql.org itself, since June 4th:

2812 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-7.3.3.tar.gz
1854 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-7.3.4.tar.gz443
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-base-7.3.3.tar.gz439
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-docs-7.3.3.tar.gz402
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.4/postgresql-opt-7.2.4.tar.gz386
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-opt-7.3.3.tar.gz384
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.4/postgresql-base-7.2.4.tar.gz289
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.3/postgresql-test-7.3.3.tar.gz267
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-7.3.2.tar.gz246
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-docs-7.3.4.tar.gz233
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-base-7.3.4.tar.gz195
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-opt-7.3.4.tar.gz177
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.4/postgresql-test-7.3.4.tar.gz168
/var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-opt-snapshot.tar.gz166
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.2/postgresql-base-7.2.2.tar.gz165
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.2/postgresql-opt-7.2.2.tar.gz162
/var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-test-snapshot.tar.gz151/var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz136
/var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-docs-snapshot.tar.gz127/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.4/postgresql-7.2.4.tar.gz100
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.1/postgresql-7.2.1.tar.gz96 /var/spool/ftp/pub/dev/postgresql-base-snapshot.tar.gz 67
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.3/postgresql-7.2.3.tar.gz48 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.1/postgresql-opt-7.2.1.tar.gz
45/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.1/postgresql-docs-7.2.1.tar.gz 45
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.1/postgresql-base-7.2.1.tar.gz41
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.1.3/postgresql-7.1.3.tar.gz36 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3/postgresql-7.3.tar.gz 35
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta1.tar.bz231 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta1.tar.gz
31/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-base-7.3.2.tar.gz 31
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2.2/postgresql-7.2.2.tar.gz29 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta3.tar.gz 28
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta4.tar.gz27 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta4.tar.bz2
27/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-docs-7.3.2.tar.gz 27
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.1/postgresql-7.3.1.tar.gz22 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta2.tar.bz2
21/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta3.tar.bz2 21 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.2/postgresql-7.2.tar.gz 20
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta2.tar.gz19 /var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta5.tar.bz2
19/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-test-7.3.2.tar.gz 19
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.3.2/postgresql-opt-7.3.2.tar.gz18
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-7.4beta5.tar.gz17
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-docs-7.4beta1.tar.bz216
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-docs-7.4beta4.tar.gz15
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.4/postgresql-docs-7.4beta3.tar.gz15
/var/spool/ftp/pub/source/v7.1.3/postgresql-docs-7.1.3.tar.gz

Note that, in the case of FreeBSD ports, they download only base and opt:

PORTNAME?=      postgresql
PORTVERSION?=   7.3.4
PORTREVISION=   1
CATEGORIES?=    databases
MASTER_SITES=   ${MASTER_SITE_PGSQL}
MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=     source/v${PORTVERSION}
DISTFILES=      postgresql-base-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX} \
postgresql-opt-${PORTVERSION}${EXTRACT_SUFX}

ignoring the rest ... which was the original intent of the split, to
reduce the amount that needs to be downloaded, as well as reduce what
needs to be re-downloaded on a failed download ...