Re: Mail thread references in commits

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Mail thread references in commits
Date: 2016-11-19 00:09:17
Message-ID: 90b7139e-c95d-38cf-e1e1-341a9e9cd712@BlueTreble.com
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On 11/18/16 4:35 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Another option would be to teach the URL shortener about our messages
> specifically, and just use an internal surrogate key we already have for
> them. That way it could be something like the current Planet URLs (which
> can be for example http://postgr.es/p/3Dl), so much shorter. To post one
> people would have to go to a webform and paste in the messageid or
> existing URL though -- or we could put a link on the page in the archives.
>
> It would make the URLs actually short, but as mentioned upthread, that
> wouldn't work at all if offline. So it'd be a tradeoff between those,
> but so are pretty much all other options that don't include the full
> message-id.

Would it be possible to stick that surrogate key into outgoing list
messages as an X- header?
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