On 4/9/07, CAJ CAJ <pguser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond <andrew.george.hammond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given > major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or trying to connect to ftp > (which is invariably timing out on me today. Is that box getting > hammered or something?) and doing the parsing that? Both approaches > feel quite awkward to me. Use wget to download via HTTP (added recently). Probably wise to add a couple mirrors in your script.
I'm not asking how to download stuff. I'm asking how to figure out the current release number for a given major.minor. I thought that was clear in my original post, but I guess not. For example, how do I determine (programmatically) the lastest version of 8.1. I'm also interested in a clever way to select one of the "close" mirrors at random for downloading via http. However I had planned to hold that question until I'd solved the first issue. Andrew
