Re: url for TODO item, is it right?

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> >> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2006-07/msg00061.php
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> > Yeah. I think the TODO item is intended to point to what is now
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00163.php
> > or one of the earlier messages in that thread.
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> This is a very ugly problem. Note that there are also URLs that cannot
> be changed, such as older messages that point to archive posts, and
> many places on the web outside of our control.
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> Why can't we just write a script that creates new numbers as needed,
> such as msg00163.1.php and msg00163.2.php? As far as I can tell, there
> is nothing magical about the naming schema itself that would cause
> such URLs to break anything.

Agreed. It is nice to have the emails numbered in arrival order, but
changes to old URLs are worse.

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