Re: New archives for testing

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> >
>> >> Now, having said that, I'd like to see some more people testing it
>> >> than the few people I've forced to do it so far. The way to test it is
>> >> to go to http://www.postgresql.org/list/ and pick your list. You can
>> >> also go to http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/<message-id> to view a
>> >> message in a thread - that should also work fine if you just replace
>> >> "archives" with "www" in the URL of an existing message in the
>> >> archives *if* you were using the message-id based url.
>> >
>> > Actually, hold the presses. See this message:
>> > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20110907091634.GL24583@sonic.net
>> > It says "the patch is attached", but there is no attachment.
>> > The old archives do contain the patch.
>>
>> Bug found and fixed. The problem was that we missed attachments that
>> were text/plain, did not have a name, but did have a filename. I first
>> thought it was another case of the From line in mbox, but if you
>> looked at the raw output you could see that we actually had the whole
>> thing in there. So in passing, I also wrote a small tool that lets us
>> reparse messages that are already in the db, whenever we change/fix
>> the parsing rules.
>
> The following message exhibits similar symptoms; the attachment appears in the
> raw and mbox versions only:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20130103031358.GB11705@tornado.leadboat.com
>
> It, too, is text/plain with a "filename" and no "name". Some attachments I
> sent on 2013-01-08, using the same email toolchain, show up fine.

Yeah, Alvaro fixed that one - I just wanted to note it here so you
knew it was fixed :)

We haven't figured out how to auto-reparse all those messages yet, so
right now we're fixing them on a case by case basis when they're
found. So keep reporting them!

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