Re: Problem with archives search

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >> OK, please remind me how to grab it by message id.
>
> > archives.postgresql.org/message-id/<message-id>
>
> [ I fear I'm exposing my lack of HTML-fu here ]
>
> I'd like to be able to paste a message ID into a form on my home page
> and end up at the correct URL, but the only way I know to do that
> involves <form method="get"> which insists on sticking "?fieldname="
> in there somewhere. Is there another simple way, or do we have an
> alternate portal that handles URLs of that format?

Hmm, I'm not very much versed in HTML either.

What I did was create a "smart bookmark" in my browser that allows me to
paste the message-id and then select "Pgsql Message by ID" from a
dropdown list of actions (other actions being search in Google,
search.postgresql.org, Merriam-Webster, etc). Would that work for you?

Another way could be to create a small program that takes
http://sss.pgh.pa.us/foo?message-id=whatever(at)momjian(dot)us and redirects to
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/whatever@momjian.us

Maybe there are better ways.

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