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From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 11:38:00 -0700
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Subject: Re: PSA: Planning to grease protocol connections during 19beta
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
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On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 1:04=E2=80=AFAM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.n=
l> wrote:
> I think it'd be good if they notify us too. So we can get a sense of whet=
her 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: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
> Subject: [grease] ExampleProxy fails grease check
> Body:
> I'm using ExampleProxy and it's failing the grease check. I've reported t=
he issue upstream at https://example.com/issues/1234

Thanks! Something like that seems reasonable to me, yeah.

Any objections here to making -hackers the landing point? I wouldn't
want to do that for a released feature, but for a beta-only thing, I
feel like the audience will be small enough to avoid accidentally
DoSing ourselves.

--Jacob