Re: Not ready for 8.3

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Not ready for 8.3
Date: 2007-05-15 23:02:08
Message-ID: 200705152302.l4FN28M23127@momjian.us
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:32:14PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> > >> They are not stable. The items should point to the archives, which are
> > >> supposedly more stable. (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus
> > >> this morning). Really it would be much nicer to have links using the
> > >> Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable.
> > >
> > > hrm - I see so is there a particular reason for that behaviour ?
> >
> > They're stable until Bruce removes something from the queue. When
> > something is removed, it's renumbered.
> >
> > It's how mhonarc works. It's the same with the archives - if we delete a
> > mail, they get renumbered. So we never should delete, we should just
> > blank out, but it has happened a couple of times.
>
> Isn't there any other archiver we could use? The lack of URL stability
> in mhonarc is bad enough, but the cross-month issue is just horrible.

Agreed. It is just crippled.

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