Re: snapshot: dot or dash?

Frank Joerdens <frank@joerdens.de> writes:
> er, this is probably a very stupid question: the /pub/dev/ folder on the
> postgres ftp server contains both postgresql-snapshot and
> postgresql.snapshot files, which seem nearly identical, except they
> unpack as postgresql-snapshot/ or pgsql/, respectively, and the size is
> slightly different. what is the difference?

You can see from the file dates that the dash-named files are more
recent.  However, they are still startlingly out of date (25 Sep)
for files that are supposed to be rebuilt each night.  I suspect the
cron script that handles this task is busted.  Marc?

            regards, tom lane