Re: PSA: Planning to grease protocol connections during 19beta

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From: Jelte Fennema-Nio <[email protected]>
To: Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PSA: Planning to grease protocol connections during 19beta
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 10:03:55 +0200
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 20:58 Jacob Champion <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Something I'm struggling with is whether (and how) to have people let
> us know when they've hit this, so that we know that the campaign is
> working. I have some language to that effect in the "What do I need to
> do?" section, but I don't really know what list I should point to, if
> any, nor what they should say so that they don't confuse the list
> regulars. I'm considering removing that part of the call to action.
>

I think it'd be good if they notify us too. So we can get a sense of
whether it's "safe enough" to bump the protocol version at some point
and/or we can bug important offenders that we have some sway over. How
about adding something like this to the wiki page:

Please also report the issue to the pgsql-hackers mailinglist using the
[grease] tag at the start of the subject and include a link to the upstream
issue (if it's on a public issue tracker). As an example:

To: [email protected]
Subject: [grease] ExampleProxy fails grease check
Body:
I'm using ExampleProxy and it's failing the grease check. I've reported the
issue upstream at https://example.com/issues/1234

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