From: | Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> |
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To: | Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> |
Cc: | Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)toroid(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches |
Date: | 2010-01-12 21:28:03 |
Message-ID: | m28wc3ovx8.fsf@hi-media.com |
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Aidan Van Dyk <aidan(at)highrise(dot)ca> writes:
> I'll note that the whole idea of a "email archive" interface might be a
> very good "advocacy" project as well. AOX might not be a perfect fit,
> but it could be a good learning experience... Really, all the PG mail
> archives need is:
>
> 1) A nice normalized DB schema representing mail messages and their
> relations to other message and "recipients" (or "folders")
We're now hoping that this one will fit:
http://www.archiveopteryx.org/schema
> 2) A "injector" that can parse an email message, and de-compose it into
> the various parts/tables of the DB schema, and insert it
aox has that either as a bulk importer or as a MDA.
> 3) A nice set of SQL queries to return message, parts, threads,
> folders based on $criteria (search, id, folder, etc)
I guess Matteo's working on that…
> 4) A web interface to view the messages/thread/parts #3 returns
And that too.
> The largest part of this is #1, but a good schema would be a very good
> candidate to show of some of PG's more powerful features in a way that
> "others" could see (like the movie store sample somewhere) , such as:
> 1) full text search
> 2) text vs bytea handling (thinking of all the mime parts, and encoding,
> etc)
> 3) CTEs, ltree, recursion, etc, for threading/searching
> 4) Triggers for "materialized views" (for quick threading/folder queries)
> 5) expression indexes
And Tsearch, too, maybe. Oh and pg_trgm might be quite good at providing
suggestion as you type or "Did you mean?" stuff.
Regards,
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dim
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