On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 11:22 PM Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 2022-09-01 22:34:07 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > 4) We include the date, excluding 0 for some mysterious reason, in the > > > version > > > number. This seems to unnecessarily contribute to making the build > not > > > reproducible. Hails from long ago: > > > > > > commit 9af932075098bd3c143993386288a634d518713c > > > Author: Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> > > > Date: 2004-12-19 02:16:31 +0000 > > > > > > Add Win32 version stamps that increment each day for proper > SYSTEM32 > > > DLL pginstaller installs. > > > > > > > This is obviously far too long ago for me to *actually* remember, but I > > think the idea was to make it work with snapshot installers. As they > would > > only replace the binary if the version number was newer, so for snapshots > > it would be useful to have it always upgrade. > > Does any installer actually behave that way? Seems very doubtful. > I think the one we had back in the days was. But that one is *long* dead now. > 5) We have a PGFILEDESC for (nearly?) every binary/library. They largely > > > don't > > > seem more useful descriptions than the binary's name. Why don't we > just > > > drop most of them and just set the description as something like > > > "PostgreSQL $name (binary|library)"? I doubt anybody ever looks into > > > these > > > details except to perhaps check the version number or such. > > > > > > > At least back in the days, a lot of software inventory programs would > > scrape this information into corporate-wide databases to keep track of > what > > was in use across enterprises. I have no idea if people still do that or > if > > it's all just checksums+databases now, but that was one reason back in > the > > days to put it there. > > Think that still happens, although I suspect they care more about the > vendor > etc than about the description. And would likely care more if we signed > build products etc... > Yeah, agreed on both accounts. And getting into signing them would certainly be a good thing, but that's a much bigger thing... -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>g
