Re: Killing off anoncvs.postgresql.org

On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 04:16:59PM +0100, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2026-Feb-18, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Does anybody have any use for this site anymore?

I didn't even know it existed.

>> We've kept it in order to make old links work, I think. Beyond the original
>> "keep it for a few weeks/months after the git migration in case we change
>> our mind"...

I've regularly dug through very old messages in the archives for several
years and I can't recall ever needing to follow such a link. I do see old
mailing list links that seem to redirect, though.

>> ...and I don't think we'll be going back to cvs :)

Really!? :p

> Another point against spending too much effort keeping it, is that the
> pgsql-committers archives URLs are still broken even with the site up.
> If you go back to the old archives, the links go to
> developer.postgresql.org, not to anoncvs.postgresql.org. For example:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20050201211106.023568B9D05%40svr1.postgresql.org
>
> If you manually edit the URL and change "developer" to "anoncvs", the
> link works.
>
> So, I'm not sure it's terribly valuable.

Huh, yeah.

>> Thus, the suggestion is to shut the service down completely. We will of
>> course keep a tarball of the cvs repository itself around (this is already
>> on our download site in pub/dev/archive), but would replace the host with a
>> hard redirect to the root of the git repository site. It would *not* track
>> the individual files or anything, just send the entire host to the git
>> server.
>
> I guess there's not all that many people interested in following those
> old links anymore.

+1

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nathan