Re: Problem with archives -- mail gets lost

On 12 October 2015 at 10:15, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

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>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Peter Geoghegan <
> peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> This is a dead link, but should link to a post to pgsql-hackers sent a
>> little while ago:
>>
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAM3SWZScpWzQ-7EJC77vwqzZ1GO8GNmURQ1QqDQ3wRn7AbW1Cg@mail.gmail.com
>>
>> I can even see my mail listed here, with a dead link to above:
>>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-hackers/since/201510120000/
>>
>> The subject of the mail is "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT documentation
>> clean-up patch". What's up with this?
>>
>
> That link works fine for me.
>
> Is there any chance that you actually tried navigating to that link
> *before* the mail actually showed up on the list in your second page? It's
> normal with a short delay (usually seconds) after the email gets to
> majordomo before it's in the archives. At that point it should not be
> visible on either of those two links, but if you hit the first link it
> would cache the 404 response for a while. Once the email arrived, the
> second link would be refreshed but not the first once (since at the time
> you got to the first link initially, we did not know which thread to
> expire, as we had not seen the mail yet).
>
> Could that be the explanation?
>

Hi,
I clicked on the first link a minute ago, got 404. Clicked on the second,
seen the email link, clicked, got email. Went to the browser tab with the
first link, refreshed, and I had the email. Maybe a kind of caching
problems?

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regards Szymon Lipiński