Re: reconstructing old threads fun

On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> I just noticed a glitch in the algorithms for thread reconstruction.
> See this thread:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1290091189-sup-9738(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org
>
> in which I just found that the archives were incomplete. I had the
> missing emails (since I was CCed), so I thought it'd be good to have
> them in the public archive. So I bounced them to pgsql-admin.
>
> If you open the initial email, the thread dropdown doesn't list the
> added emails. If you follow the "response" links at the bottom, you
> won't reach the added emails. However, if you open the "flat" view,
> they will definitely be there.
>
> Is this something that would manifest in other cases when emails in the
> middle of a thread get added later than some later ones? This is not a
> common situation, but it might happen if some emails in the middle are
> moderated and later ones are not.

That sounds more like a cache invalidation issue. Since I don't know
exactly which of the emails had the problem - if you go back now, has
it by any chance resolved itself already? AFAICT there's at least the
same *number* of messages in the two lists now...

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