Re: Patch to add 'id'

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 11:46 PM, Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

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> On Jun 10, 2018, at 3:40 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 4:16 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
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>> Would someone please apply this patch to the website code so pglife
>> (http://pglife.momjian.us/) can more easily scrape the current release
>> numbers from the website? Thanks.
>>
>
> Uh, if you are looking to get the current release, why are you scraping
> the main webpage instead of using the structured format data already
> available at https://www.postgresql.org/versions.rss?
>
> (Now granted, I think that link may have gone missing in the redesign, but
> your pglife thing predates that..)
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> Now, having staid that, we should probably consider having a structured
> format with more data in it. But doesn't that one actually have all you
> need?
>
>
> Hm...just expanding on his, perhaps we have a “Feeds” page that has a
> collection of all the different
> feeds we offer?
>
>
That would probably not be a bad idea. Though perhaps have it being
something other than specifically feeds, if we want to for example add the
ability to give a json (or xml or whatnot) page with fully structured
version info etc. Unless we want to consider those as being separate things
and apart -- but I think having them both on the same page would make
sense.

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