Re: Mailing archive URL stability

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: "Decibel!" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Mailing archive URL stability
Date: 2008-02-12 12:23:29
Message-ID: 47B18FC1.8020504@hagander.net
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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.

//Magnus

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