Re: Request for download stats on release

The issue is how hard is it to get the information, and how useful is it
to us.  It is pretty hard to get, and if we knew a number, what would we
do with it that would help PostgreSQL?  Not much, I think.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
> > Maybe have an extension on initdb so that if run from a terminal, it
> > prompts the installer for whether they want to send in a simple email
> > letting us know its being used ... ?
>
> I think this is a bad idea.  People will find it invasive of their
> privacy, and even with it we'd still have no idea of real usage counts,
> considering how many people would opt out --- or never see the prompt
> in the first place, because they're using an RPM or .deb installation
> that's going to run initdb non-interactively.
>
> We used to have a request to send email in the message that got printed
> by 'make install'.  How many people responded to that?  Darn few that
> I can recall.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
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