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.
>
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> Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/
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