Re: Email not searchable in our archives

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > bruce wrote:
> > > Would someone please fine out why the attached email from Heikki is not
> > > appearing in a search of our archives? I tried the subject and a line
> > > from the email and neither came up as a hit:
> >
> > OK, it has been 24 hours since I reported some emails are not being
> > archived and no one has even responded they are looking at the problem.
>
> I can fix the problem by providing URLs with message ids. Would that
> help? You can find out the Message-Id trivially from the original
> email, and the URL would take you to the main message page complete with
> thread links and all.

I have been pasting the email subject line into the search and usually
it is the first hit (when search works).

> I haven't done it yet because I noticed that I'd need to create a
> directory with thousands of files and I'm not sure how is it going to
> work. I've been trying to generate something of the form
> msgid/f/e/fedup2007234234(at)momjian(dot)us
> (i.e. creating subdirs for the first letters) but apparently Mhonarc
> doesn't let me do that.
>
> Perhaps I should just try without the subdir and see if it works.

I am thinking we need the searches to actually work. I can find the
emails eventually, and using Google with site:archives.postgresql.org
works pretty well for the time being.

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