Thread: 7.1 question
Could someone tell what the differences are between the 7.1beta4 and "snapshot" tarballs? To try out 7.1, which of the two should I get from the ftp site?
Thanks!
Tim
Tim Barnard writes: > Could someone tell what the differences are between the 7.1beta4 and > "snapshot" tarballs? To try out 7.1, which of the two should I get > from the ftp site? The snapshot is built daily (nightly?) from whatever happens to be in the source repository at the time. Once in a while a snapshot is effectively relabeled "betaX" and announced. Aside from this non-difference, the beta is at least looked at by a few humans to make sure that all the files are there, whereas the snapshot is done fully automatically and might be horribly broken (in theory, of course ;-) ). If you are new to "trying out", getting the latest official beta might make you feel slightly better, but the quality of the snapshots has been equally high lately. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/
Thanks for the clarification :-) Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net> To: "Tim Barnard" <tbarnard@povn.com> Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 question > Tim Barnard writes: > > > Could someone tell what the differences are between the 7.1beta4 and > > "snapshot" tarballs? To try out 7.1, which of the two should I get > > from the ftp site? > > The snapshot is built daily (nightly?) from whatever happens to be in the > source repository at the time. Once in a while a snapshot is effectively > relabeled "betaX" and announced. Aside from this non-difference, the beta > is at least looked at by a few humans to make sure that all the files are > there, whereas the snapshot is done fully automatically and might be > horribly broken (in theory, of course ;-) ). > > If you are new to "trying out", getting the latest official beta might > make you feel slightly better, but the quality of the snapshots has been > equally high lately. > > -- > Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/ > >