Re: Not ready for 8.3

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Not ready for 8.3
Date: 2007-05-15 22:59:59
Message-ID: 20070515225959.GX20707@nasby.net
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On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> >> They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are
> >> supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus
> >> this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the
> >> Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable.
> >
> > hrm - I see so is there a particular reason for that behaviour ?
>
> They're stable until Bruce removes something from the queue. When
> something is removed, it's renumbered.
>
> It's how mhonarc works. It's the same with the archives - if we delete a
> mail, they get renumbered. So we never should delete, we should just
> blank out, but it has happened a couple of times.

Isn't there any other archiver we could use? The lack of URL stability
in mhonarc is bad enough, but the cross-month issue is just horrible.
--
Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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