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

On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 1:04 AM Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
> 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

Thanks! Something like that seems reasonable to me, yeah.

Any objections here to making -hackers the landing point? I wouldn't
want to do that for a released feature, but for a beta-only thing, I
feel like the audience will be small enough to avoid accidentally
DoSing ourselves.

--Jacob