Re: url for TODO item, is it right?

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> [ There is text before PGP section. ]
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>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
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>>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2006-07/msg00061.php
>>>
>>> Yeah. I think the TODO item is intended to point to what is now
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00163.php
>>> or one of the earlier messages in that thread.
>>
>> This is a very ugly problem. Note that there are also URLs that cannot
>> be changed, such as older messages that point to archive posts, and
>> many places on the web outside of our control.
>>
>> Why can't we just write a script that creates new numbers as needed,
>> such as msg00163.1.php and msg00163.2.php? As far as I can tell, there
>> is nothing magical about the naming schema itself that would cause
>> such URLs to break anything.
>
> Agreed. It is nice to have the emails numbered in arrival order, but
> changes to old URLs are worse.

'k, so is the concensus here that I regenerate everything with the 'broken
msg seperator', and then revert to the unbroken one for new stuff? its no
sweat, I just fear this is going to re-crop up sometime in the future if
we ever have to regenerate from the mbox files, as well have some in
'broken format' and some in the 'unbroken', but renumbering *then* will
still affect everything ...

Basically, we're just differing the headaches to a later date when we have
no choice :(

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