Thread: Bug report form: locale/encoding
Considering the amount of bug repotrs that get their first question as "what's the locale" and "what's the encoding", should we perhaps add those fields to the bug reporting form? And if we should, should we add them as optional or mandatory? //Magnus
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:11:23AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Considering the amount of bug repotrs that get their first question as > "what's the locale" and "what's the encoding", should we perhaps add > those fields to the bug reporting form? > > And if we should, should we add them as optional or mandatory? Mandatory, including a quick description on how to get the values. Has anyone considered something like "reportbug" in Debian which collects a certain amount of information about the system and then creates an email with the information included. Of perhaps a pg_buginfo like this: $ pg_buginfo <dbname> Platform: blah Version: blah Compiler: blah etc... FrozenXID: blah Encoding: blah Locale: blah Which could then be cut and paste into an email or the bug form. Maybe with optional table name it would provide more info about just that table. Or if you provide a query it generates explain output. Obviously it won't work in situations where the system is completely broken. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> Has anyone considered something like "reportbug" in Debian which
> collects a certain amount of information about the system and then
> creates an email with the information included. Of perhaps a pg_buginfo
> like this:
pg_config and pg_controldata together cover most if not all of this
info, and neither requires a running postmaster.
regards, tom lane
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:07:52AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > > Has anyone considered something like "reportbug" in Debian which > > collects a certain amount of information about the system and then > > creates an email with the information included. Of perhaps a pg_buginfo > > like this: > > pg_config and pg_controldata together cover most if not all of this > info, and neither requires a running postmaster. Excellent. Let's add some fields to the bug reporting form where people can paste the output. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.