Thread: Binaries vs Source
Binary package from www.postgresql.org 121 33.799% Through operating system update tool 127 35.475% ~66% Compile from source 98 27.374% Hmmm, are we doing something with this information? I am not an expert at all, but I reccon that these numbers are at least a surprise to me. -- Guido Barosio ----------------------- http://www.globant.com guido.barosio@globant.com
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:42:51 -0700 "Guido Barosio" <gbarosio@gmail.com> wrote: > Binary package from www.postgresql.org 121 33.799% > Through operating system update tool 127 35.475% > ~66% > > Compile from source 98 27.374% > > Hmmm, are we doing something with this information? I am not an expert > at all, but I reccon that these numbers are at least a surprise to me. > Why is it a surprise? -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
Joshua, *... a surprise to me* ---> Though *compile* would beat other methods. gb.- On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:42:51 -0700 > "Guido Barosio" <gbarosio@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Binary package from www.postgresql.org 121 33.799% >> Through operating system update tool 127 35.475% >> ~66% >> >> Compile from source 98 27.374% >> >> Hmmm, are we doing something with this information? I am not an expert >> at all, but I reccon that these numbers are at least a surprise to me. >> > > Why is it a surprise? > > -- > The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ > PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ > United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ > Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate > > > -- Guido Barosio ----------------------- http://www.globant.com guido.barosio@globant.com
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:02:06 -0700 "Guido Barosio" <gbarosio@gmail.com> wrote: > Joshua, > > *... a surprise to me* ---> Though *compile* would beat other methods. > Oh.. actually I would find it very surprising if compile from source won. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ United States PostgreSQL Association: http://www.postgresql.us/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:42 -0700, Guido Barosio wrote:
> Binary package from www.postgresql.org 121 33.799%
We have 2000+ users in yum repository ;)
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:42 -0700, Guido Barosio wrote: >> Binary package from www.postgresql.org 121 33.799% > > We have 2000+ users in yum repository ;) We certainly had more than 121 downloads ;-) These are people who voted on the survey, if that wasn't clear.... //Magnus
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 22:41 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> These are people who voted
> on the survey, if that wasn't clear....
One of them was me :-P
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Devrim G�ND�Z wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 10:42 -0700, Guido Barosio wrote: > > Binary package from www.postgresql.org 121 33.799% > > We have 2000+ users in yum repository ;) These changes have _got_ to be increasing adoption; I only wish we had made non-source downloads easier earlier. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +