On 2025-10-25 10:43:41 -0400, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pgsql@hjp.at> writes:
> > The discussion about people avoiding .0 releases over in the "Index
> > corruption ..." thread made me wonder how the distribution really looks
> > like. How many people do install X.0, X.1, etc. for each major version
> > X?
>
> > Download statistics are of course quite noisy but I think they should at
> > least show the trends. Do you have any and would you mind publishing
> > them?
>
> I imagine we have stats for downloads from www.postgresql.org,
> but it's been many years since we thought those were complete
> or even representative.
>
>
> I download one set of RPMs (PG 14.19, for example) and then scp them to 15
> different servers. One set of PG 17.6 binaries gets copied to 30 different
> servers.
Yes, these are both examples of what I meant by "noisy". There
are other sources than www.postgresql.org (and apt.postgresql.org,
download.postgresql.org, etc.) and one download may be used for many
installations or sometimes none. So the absolute numbers are almost
meaningless. However, the trends might still be illuminating. Of course
the patterns might be totally different for those users who just use
whatever is included with their Linux distribution (for example the 2
year release cycle of Debian and Ubuntu would cause some shifts) but
I'm not convinced it would be that different.
hjp
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