Re: dowloading source

Dennis Veatch <dveatch@woh.rr.com> writes:
> There are postgresql-base and postgresql-opt sources listed. What are they
> for?

See the README file, eg at
ftp://ftp8.us.postgresql.org/postgresql/source/v7.4/

Per that file:

The file named "postgresql-XXX.tar.gz" is the full source distribution.
Each of the other four "tarballs" contains a subset of the files from the
full distribution, for downloading convenience.  If you download all four
of them and unpack them into the same directory you will get exactly what
you would have gotten had you downloaded the full distribution.


            regards, tom lane