Re: archives frequently do not load today's messages

On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 01:07:31AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> You're on the right track, but that's not the actual bug. But the
> increasing of the cache time has exposed a bug that has been there all
> along.
>
> The bug is that *someone* hits the URL, in this case for Sep 2, when there
> are zero messages from Sep 2 yet. When that happens the empty page is
> cached but it's cached *without* the key that say it's in September. So
> when the first Sep 2 message actually arrives, it failes to to purge it
> because it purges everything in September only. Not in NULL.

Got it.

> I've pushed a fix for this now, I think (
> https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgarchives.git;a=commit;h=51485f825d7012fc5701900c2dfd562609fb1a06
> ).
>
> It will take up to 12 hours for all the incorrectly taggred pages to expire
> from the cache.
>
> Thanks for the report!

Thanks for fixing!

--
nathan