Re: Somewhat excessive version checks

Hi!

If I read the code correctly, pgadmin will (unless turned off) hit the
website to check the version.json file for updates *every time it
starts*.

Wouldn't it make sense to rate limit that to checking say once per 24
hours maximum? Or even 48?

It seems nobody needs the update *that* quickly, and AFAICT it does
call out to make that check synchronously on startup which means the
user is waiting.

And if/when doing that, it would be useful to include an
If-Modified-Since header on the request, so the server can just
respond with a tiny 304 reply when there is no update, which is going
to be the majority of the time. Or possibly even more efficiently,
create a custom etag and use If-None-Matches. If you make that etag be
say the version that the client has, it becomes very cheap to check
and you don't need to track any extra data.