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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Chris Bandy <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Unable to browse blobs on gitweb
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:52:09 -0400
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Chris Bandy <[email protected]> writes:
> I like to link to the Postgres source code and comments in my extension
> code comments. I use https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb for that, as it
> seems to be the canonical site for Postgres source code.

It is ... but ...

> Lately, I have encountered HTTP 429 errors when trying to access blobs. For
> example,

We had to shut down a lot of that stuff thanks to web-scrapers eating
infinite amounts of bandwidth.  (The AI bot companies will be first
against the wall when the revolution comes ... but I digress.)
You might try linking to the github mirror at
https://github.com/postgres/postgres.
So far they seem able to resist the onslaught of uncivilized jerks.

			regards, tom lane

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