Re: Somewhat excessive version checks

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 5:59 AM Khushboo Vashi
<khushboo(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 3:36 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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>> Hi!
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>> 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*.
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>> Wouldn't it make sense to rate limit that to checking say once per 24
>> hours maximum? Or even 48?
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>> 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.
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> Agreed, we should have some mechanism in place to limit the server hit, maybe an asynchronous call from the client while loading.

Seems async front he server would be a better choice there, if you
have some ways for that? Otherwise, how to determine which user to
trust when storing the result etc?

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