Re: Request for download stats on release

"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