Re: Missing bug-report numbers?

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> There's somebody over in pgsql-bugs complaining about lack of response
> to his bug report #4593. Well, no such bug number came by here, nor is
> it in the archives. The adjacent bug numbers are also missing, and I
> notice quite a few other gaps. What might be the cause of missing
> bug numbers?

Many are spam. Because we don't require a community registration to
log bugs, we often got junk submissions from bots/idiots. Because the
form sends the bugs as though they were from the submitter, most are
then caught in the moderation queue where they get zapped. It's
possible that a real one got lost that way of course.

I'd prefer to require a community account, but others have wanted to
keep the bug-reporting bar as low as possible in the past.

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Dave Page
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