

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc@samurai.com] 
> Sent: 10 September 2002 05:58
> To: Sean Chittenden
> Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Optimization levels when compiling 
> PostgreSQL...
> 
> 
> Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:
> > Has there been any talk of doing incremental -snapshots of the code 
> > base?
> 
> I don't really see the point. Snapshots of development code 
> are available from CVS anyway -- and if you're going to be 
> running a pre-alpha version of a relational database, I don't 
> think that knowledge of CVS is an onerous requirement.
> 
> At any rate, the problem with releasing snapshots is that the 
> system catalogs would change so often that upgrading between 
> snapshots would be a headache. i.e. the changes required to 
> upgrade from a 2 week old development snapshot to a current 
> snapshot would still be non-trivial, significantly reducing 
> the usefulness of snapshots, IMHO.

Snapshots can be found here: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/

Regards, Dave.

Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:46:09 +0100
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Re: Optimization levels when compiling PostgreSQL...