Thread: Windows installer for pg-8.4 confusion
First, thanks to everyone who contributed to 8.4 -- the new features list looks great! In the past I have always installed the Windows binary installer from postgresql.org. For pg-8.4 I see that the download directory now has a pointer to the EnterpriseDB "one click" installer. Has the EnterpriseDB installer now become the "official" Windows distribution? Or will the standard pginstaller appear some time in the future?
Stuart McGraw schrieb: > First, thanks to everyone who contributed > to 8.4 -- the new features list looks great! > > In the past I have always installed the > Windows binary installer from postgresql.org. > For pg-8.4 I see that the download directory > now has a pointer to the EnterpriseDB "one > click" installer. > > Has the EnterpriseDB installer now become the > "official" Windows distribution? Or will the > standard pginstaller appear some time in the > future? Hi, having a look at http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.4rc1/win32/ will answer your question ;-) Cheers Andy
Andreas Wenk wrote: > Stuart McGraw schrieb: >> First, thanks to everyone who contributed >> to 8.4 -- the new features list looks great! >> >> In the past I have always installed the >> Windows binary installer from postgresql.org. >> For pg-8.4 I see that the download directory >> now has a pointer to the EnterpriseDB "one >> click" installer. >> >> Has the EnterpriseDB installer now become the >> "official" Windows distribution? Or will the >> standard pginstaller appear some time in the >> future? > > Hi, > > having a look at > > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.4rc1/win32/ Thanks, it did. :-) For future mail list searchers, it says, "As of PostgreSQL 8.4, the MSI installer is no longer being maintained. Please use the one-click installer instead, which may be downloaded from [...]" [aside to the postgresql.org maintainers: Perhaps the readme in the v8.4.0/win32/ directory should also include that statement?]
2009/7/6 Stuart McGraw <smcg2297@frii.com>: >>> Has the EnterpriseDB installer now become the >>> "official" Windows distribution? Or will the >>> standard pginstaller appear some time in the >>> future? No, it won't be produced in the future. It's been deprecated due to the high maintenance overhead and how difficult it is to debug problems, amongst other reasons. > [aside to the postgresql.org maintainers: Perhaps > the readme in the v8.4.0/win32/ directory should > also include that statement?] I've updated the wording, and removed the old beta/rc directories. The changes should show up in the next few hours. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
Stuart McGraw wrote: > First, thanks to everyone who contributed > to 8.4 -- the new features list looks great! > > In the past I have always installed the > Windows binary installer from postgresql.org. > For pg-8.4 I see that the download directory > now has a pointer to the EnterpriseDB "one > click" installer. > > Has the EnterpriseDB installer now become the > "official" Windows distribution? Or will the > standard pginstaller appear some time in the > future? The EnterpriseDB is now the standard and the MSI one will not be returning. The MSI one was just too hard to build and didn't have any advantages of the EnterpriseDB one. We do have all the specs of how to build the EnterpriseDB one so anyone else can reproduce it if necessary. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +