| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Decibel! <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Mailing archive URL stability |
| Date: | 2008-02-12 12:54:59 |
| Message-ID: | 20080212125459.GE11294@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Decibel! wrote:
>> Moving to -www
>>
>> On Feb 9, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Yeah, it happens that way for me too. The other huge, huge problem with
>>> it is the lack of stability of URLs for the items in the list, which
>>> makes it difficult to identify which item you're talking about.
>>
>> Wasn't someone going to look into having the mailing list generate a
>> header that would be universally unique and un-changing?
>
> The archive URLs *are* stable. It's the ones in Bruces patch-queue that
> aren't, and that's because he sometimes deletes mail. In the archives we
> don't delete, so they stay stable.
Still, it would be pretty useful to have a facility for searching
messages by Message-Id (which are unique and immutable). If the "patch
queue" consisted solely of Message-Ids, it would be pretty easy and
quick to locate the exact message in the archives.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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