Re: Download statistics

On Sat, Oct 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pgsql@hjp.at> writes:
> > The discussion about people avoiding .0 releases over in the "Index
> > corruption ..." thread made me wonder how the distribution really looks
> > like. How many people do install X.0, X.1, etc. for each major version
> > X?
>
> > Download statistics are of course quite noisy but I think they should at
> > least show the trends. Do you have any and would you mind publishing
> > them?
>
> I imagine we have stats for downloads from www.postgresql.org,
> but it's been many years since we thought those were complete
> or even representative.
>

I download one set of RPMs (PG 14.19, for example) and then scp them to 15
different servers.  One set of PG 17.6 binaries gets copied to 30 different
servers.

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