| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Mail thread references in commits |
| Date: | 2016-11-30 16:19:35 |
| Message-ID: | f9971101-d863-3625-a174-a7ff805e736d@dunslane.net |
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On 11/30/2016 10:46 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
> Agreed. I just did my first commit with the shortened URL, and I
> didn't like it. If we want to use URLs, let's use the canonical
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/<message-id> format.
>
>> Do we know of an actual length limit that is useful to aim for? If we
>> just make it just a bit shorter but it's still too long for a large
>> class of email readers, depending on the message ID format, then it's
>> not that useful.
>
> Right, we can't control the length of the URL, because it contains the
> message-id, which can be arbitrarily long.
Here is a url with one of the long gmail Message-IDs that I arbitrarily picked out of a recent mail thread:
I'll be interested to know if it breaks anyone's MUA. If it doesn't all we will be arguing about are aesthetics, and I'm a firm believer in function over form.
cheers
andrew
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