On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> Barring the discovery of any major new bugs, the core committee has
> agreed to release 7.4RC1 on Monday.  Time to get those last-minute
> fixes in place.
> 
> I currently have the following issues on my radar screen:
> 
> Force GRANT/REVOKE by superuser to act as though owner of object?
> Change libpgtcl to use ByteArray for lo_read/lo_write (ljb's patch)
> Add option for parallelism limit in make check (Andrew Dunstan's
> patch) rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli
> 
> plus various minor documentation fixes.  Not much there...
> 
> BTW, 7.4 final will be as early as the following Monday if no
> problems are detected.  We will decide on a week-to-week basis
> whether we are ready to release final or not.

Any chance of putting up a torrent for it?  I'd be happy to host, but
I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow :)

Cheers,
D
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Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:25:49 -0800
David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday


On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Barring the discovery of any major new bugs, the core committee has
> > agreed to release 7.4RC1 on Monday.  Time to get those last-minute
> > fixes in place.
> >
> > I currently have the following issues on my radar screen:
> >
> > Force GRANT/REVOKE by superuser to act as though owner of object?
> > Change libpgtcl to use ByteArray for lo_read/lo_write (ljb's patch)
> > Add option for parallelism limit in make check (Andrew Dunstan's
> > patch) rule/foreign key interaction reported by Michele Bendazzoli
> >
> > plus various minor documentation fixes.  Not much there...
> >
> > BTW, 7.4 final will be as early as the following Monday if no
> > problems are detected.  We will decide on a week-to-week basis
> > whether we are ready to release final or not.
>
> Any chance of putting up a torrent for it?  I'd be happy to host, but
> I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow :)

Put up a what ... ?


Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:43:43 -0400 (AST)
"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday
"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:

> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote:
> 
> > Any chance of putting up a torrent for it?  I'd be happy to host, but
> > I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow :)
> 
> Put up a what ... ?

Google for "BitTorrent".  It's a pretty darn cool app but I don't
think the PG source tarball is really big enough to be worth the
trouble...  It's great for things like CD images though.

-Doug


30 Oct 2003 21:51:24 -0500
Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:51:24PM -0500, Doug McNaught wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, David Fetter wrote:
> > 
> > > Any chance of putting up a torrent for it?  I'd be happy to
> > > host, but I'd have to get the link on the downloads page somehow
> > > :)
> > 
> > Put up a what ... ?
> 
> Google for "BitTorrent".  It's a pretty darn cool app but I don't
> think the PG source tarball is really big enough to be worth the
> trouble...  It's great for things like CD images though.

It's big enough that it'd be nice to be able to distribute the load a
little :)

Cheers,
D
-- 
David Fetter david@fetter.org http://fetter.org/
phone: +1 510 893 6100    cell: +1 415 235 3778

Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:23:04 -0800
David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday