Re: PSA: Planning to grease protocol connections during 19beta

On Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 20:58 Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
wrote:

> Something I'm struggling with is whether (and how) to have people let
> us know when they've hit this, so that we know that the campaign is
> working. I have some language to that effect in the "What do I need to
> do?" section, but I don't really know what list I should point to, if
> any, nor what they should say so that they don't confuse the list
> regulars. I'm considering removing that part of the call to action.
>

I think it'd be good if they notify us too. So we can get a sense of
whether it's "safe enough" to bump the protocol version at some point
and/or we can bug important offenders that we have some sway over. How
about adding something like this to the wiki page:

Please also report the issue to the pgsql-hackers mailinglist using the
[grease] tag at the start of the subject and include a link to the upstream
issue (if it's on a public issue tracker). As an example:

To: pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [grease] ExampleProxy fails grease check
Body:
I'm using ExampleProxy and it's failing the grease check. I've reported the
issue upstream at https://example.com/issues/1234