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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Request for download stats on release
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:28:59 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
The issue is how hard is it to get the information, and how useful is it
to us. It is pretty hard to get, and if we knew a number, what would we
do with it that would help PostgreSQL? Not much, I think.
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <[email protected]> writes:
> > Maybe have an extension on initdb so that if run from a terminal, it
> > prompts the installer for whether they want to send in a simple email
> > letting us know its being used ... ?
>
> I think this is a bad idea. People will find it invasive of their
> privacy, and even with it we'd still have no idea of real usage counts,
> considering how many people would opt out --- or never see the prompt
> in the first place, because they're using an RPM or .deb installation
> that's going to run initdb non-interactively.
>
> We used to have a request to send email in the message that got printed
> by 'make install'. How many people responded to that? Darn few that
> I can recall.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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