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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 14:18:14 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Just shutdown rsync while I rebuild the archives for the 'old/new' scheme,
where old is pre-July 2006 ...
will post once its been all rebuilt ...
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Is anyone working on this? Marc? If not, who can make these
> modifications to the archive numbering?
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> When Marc fixed the message-boundary pattern and regenerated the
>>> archives, many of the existing messages changed URLs because they
>>> got assigned slightly different numbers. I notice that the archive
>>> search engine hasn't yet tracked this change --- if you do a search
>>> and click on a link to a message, you'll arrive at a message close
>>> to the one you want but probably not quite it.
>>>
>>> Regenerating the archive indexes is presumably not hard, but there's
>>> a bigger problem: for awhile now many of us have been in the habit
>>> of citing old discussions by archive URLs. All those links are now
>>> broken too, and I can't think of any easy way to fix them. And then
>>> there's Google etc.
>>>
>>> I wonder if it'd be better to revert the regeneration of the archives,
>>> and only apply the new message-boundary pattern to future messages.
>>
>> Agreed. There have been no changes since we discussed this.
>>
>> The best proposal was to renumber the newly-found items to the end of
>> the numeric range for the pre-July 2006 archives, and to properly number
>> July 2006 and later archives. And this date range has to be enbedded in
>> the archive script so if it is ever run again, this behavior continues
>> to happen.
>>
>> The longer we take to fix this, the more likely that people are creating
>> URL's that refer to the existing pre-July 2006 numbering which should
>> change. It needs to be fixed quickly.
>>
>> And we can't just leave it alone because old archive emails have URLs
>> that point to now-incorrect numbers, and there is no good way to fix
>> that everywhere are emails are archived.
>>
>> --
>> Bruce Momjian [email protected]
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>>
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> --
> Bruce Momjian [email protected]
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>
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