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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Request for download stats on release
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:28:59 -0400 (EDT)
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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" <scrappy@postgresql.org> 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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