Instead of hardcoding a specific link, give a general link to the
download section of the web site. This gives the user more download
options and the sysadmins more flexibility. Also, the previously
presented link didn't work for devel versions.
Getting The Source
- The
PostgreSQL> &version; sources can be obtained by
- anonymous FTP from
- url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v&version;/postgresql-&version;.tar.gz">.
- Other download options can be found on our website:
- have obtained the file, unpack it:
+ The
PostgreSQL> &version; sources can be obtained from the
+ download section of our
+ should get a file named postgresql-&version;.tar.gz
+ or postgresql-&version;.tar.bz2. After
+ you have obtained the file, unpack it:
gunzip postgresql-&version;.tar.gz
tar xf postgresql-&version;.tar
+ (Use bunzip2 instead of gunzip if you
+ have the .bz2 file.)
This will create a directory
postgresql-&version; under the current directory
with the
PostgreSQL> sources.