| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches |
| Date: | 2010-02-01 16:31:21 |
| Message-ID: | 603c8f071002010831s17d2e25dwf81809942d098f5e@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com> writes:
>> My main concern is that we'd need to overcomplicate the thread detection
>> algorithm so that it better deals with delayed messages: as it currently
>> works, the replies to a missing message get linked to the
>> "grand-parent". Injecting the missing message afterwards will put it at
>> the same level as its replies. If it happens only once in a while I
>> guess we can live with it, but definitely not if it happens tens of
>> times a day.
>
> That's quite common unfortunately --- I think you're going to need to
> deal with the case. Even getting a direct feed from the mail relays
> wouldn't avoid it completely: consider cases like
>
> * A sends a message
> * B replies, cc'ing A and the list
> * B's reply to list is delayed by greylisting
> * A replies to B's reply (cc'ing list)
> * A's reply goes through immediately
> * B's reply shows up a bit later
>
> That happens pretty frequently IME.
Yeah - and sometimes the delay can be DAYS.
...Robert
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