On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Donald Fraser" <demolish@cwgsy.net> writes:
> >> Nice work, just two comments (1) the C++ comment style (//) is not
> >> portable for C programs and should be changed and (2) the standard way
>
> > Fair comment but since it has to be compiled against a valid PosgtreSQL
> > distribution, which all require GNU compilers,
>
> We have several beta testers who keep us honest on exactly this point;
> they use compilers that do not take //. Personally I wish gcc could
> be configured not to have these little non-ANSI-isms ...
>
> > Ok its I added the tar.gz file to the distribution, which you'll note
> > it twice the size of the zip file.
>
> Shouldn't be. Did you use "gzip -9"? For instance, I get these sorts
> of numbers on a directory full of C source files:
>
> $ ls -l z.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tgl users 142048 Sep 25 20:40 z.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tgl users 156389 Sep 25 20:41 z.zip
And, as always, bzip2 beats them both:
ls -l cit*
-rw------- 1 scott.ma scott.ma 6317 Sep 26 08:06 citext.tar.bz2
-rw------- 1 scott.ma scott.ma 7056 Sep 26 08:00 citext.tar.gz
-rw------- 1 scott.ma scott.ma 7334 Sep 26 08:01 citext.zip
(gzip run with -9 switch)