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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:50:24 -0500
From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: Re: Feature request - have postgresql log warning
	when new sub-release comes out.
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On 04/26/07 13:38, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Ron Mayer wrote:
>>> How about if PostgreSQL periodically check for updates on the
>>>  internet and log WARNINGs as soon as it sees it's not
>>> running the newest minor version for a branch. ...
>> uhmmm gah, errm no... ehhhh why? :)
> 
> Mostly because it seems like a near FAQ here that someone posts
> questions about people running very old postgresqls where the
> answers are "that was fixed in the latest minor version".
> 
> Regarding people saying that their OS package manager can do this
> for them - I note that the people who have this problem the worst
> seem to be the people running older postgresqls, and your OS
> vendor may not be keeping the major version number of their
> postgresql the same as yours.   For example, apt-cache search
> here isn't showing me 8.0 (though it does show 7.4, 8.1, and
> 8.2).

For example: Debian.  It's Stable releases only get *security*
patches, nothing related to features or performance.

>> I could see a contrib module that was an agent that did that
>> but not as part of actual core.
> 
> I was thinking it would protect the more ignorant users who
> didn't even know about contrib.   I imagine anyone who did know
> enough to install a contrib module would also know how to write
> such a script without it.
> 
> No big deal, though - if others don't think there's a need, then 
> I'm not going to push for it.

A *tiny* Perl/Python script to parse
http://www.postgresql.org/versions.xml is all you need.  Putting it
in cron and emailing when "someone" a version changes seems useful.

Ok, it's official: you're elected to implement it!

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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