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

On Tue, Dec 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM Jacob Champion
<jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> I want to make sure this doesn't take anyone by surprise: I'm planning
> to get Jelte's "grease" patch into shape for a commit some time in
> January.

As of January 54th, this is committed.

I wanted to get people's thoughts on communication. As it stands now,
beta users will be directed towards our own documentation [1] when
they hit a grease failure. But personally, I'd like the landing page
to be on the wiki, for several reasons:

- It can be written in a more casual voice, and go into detail that
would be out of place in a docs note
- It's easier to change quickly in response to end user feedback, if
we receive any
- It can remain in place after the beta period ends

But having libpq link to a wiki page makes that page a vandalism
target. Can a wiki page be protected in a way that still lets
committers edit it? Is there a third option that works better than the
docs or the wiki?

--Jacob

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-CONNECT-MAX-PROTOCOL-VERSION