Re: Patch set under development to add usage reporting.

Greg

> > We now have a basic patch set that works and is basically stable (not
> > recommended for production servers!). We've dedicated a page at our web
> > site and it hopefully has answers to most of your questions, and also
> > has the patch set for download. These are for 7.4.19 - the version
> > included with RHEL 4.

http://www.ExtSQL.com/postgres_notes.php
>
> This is kind of interesting, but targeting 7.4.19 isn't going to get you
> very far toward code anyone else will use. That release is 6 years old,
> it's filled with unsolvable limitations, it's basically at end of life.
> The fact that it's bundled with RHEL4 and there are some legacy installs
> still floating around are the only reason it's not completely gone from
> everyone's radar.
>
> In short, if you actually care about your data, you should be running a
> newer version of the database regardless of what RHEL ships. And you
> should be building patches against no earlier than 8.4 if you want
> something that has any hope of being accepted into mainstream development.
> Eventually the patch will need to apply to the 8.5 work in progress source
> code tree before it's even a candidate to merge. You can probably get
> away with developing against a more stable version like 8.4.1, if you must
> target something people can also deploy, but even that's not ideal and
> will eventually turn into a code merge hurdle.

Yes, thanks for the recommendation and I do agree. I think we
got started with 7.4.19 because we run RHEL4 and had a postgresql
installation in support of a Canit anti-SPAM system -- it gave us
something real to test against.

We were trying to decided what later release to target, looks
like we'll go for 8.4 and 8.5 as staff/work permits. Any feedback on
the syntax/output is welcome.

Best regards!

--
John
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