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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Somewhat excessive version checks
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 08:56:59 +0000
Message-ID: <CA+OCxow7rQVSNhfhK_6E4KUX==P9BL2M_N4K7vSddD=nyMDhLA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:06 PM Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> If I read the code correctly, pgadmin will (unless turned off) hit the
> website to check the version.json file for updates *every time it
> starts*.
>

Every time the server starts, which is a little different, but still...


>
> Wouldn't it make sense to rate limit that to checking say once per 24
> hours maximum? Or even 48?
>

That certainly wouldn't be a bad idea.


>
> It seems nobody needs the update *that* quickly, and AFAICT it does
> call out to make that check synchronously on startup which means the
> user is waiting.
>
> And if/when doing that, it would be useful to include an
> If-Modified-Since header on the request, so the server can just
> respond with a tiny 304 reply when there is no update, which is going
> to be the majority of the time. Or possibly even more efficiently,
> create a custom etag and use If-None-Matches. If you make that etag be
> say the version that the client has, it becomes very cheap to check
> and you don't need to track any extra data.
>

Patches welcome!

-- 
Dave Page
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