Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFD7633E76 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:55:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82527-02 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:54:53 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from momjian.us (momjian.us [70.90.9.53]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998306329E9 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:55:02 -0300 (ADT) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by momjian.us (8.11.6/8.11.6) id n3GEsxm27869; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:54:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200904161454.n3GEsxm27869@momjian.us> Subject: Re: Archives policy In-Reply-To: <16454.1239890476@sss.pgh.pa.us> To: Tom Lane Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:54:59 -0400 (EDT) CC: Dave Page , PostgreSQL www X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.097 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=0.097 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200904/72 X-Sequence-Number: 16939 Tom Lane wrote: > Dave Page writes: > > Can I get comments/objections/opinions on this draft policy please? > > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Archives_Policy > > Hmm, the first section suggests that there are cases where we will > de-archive messages, and then the second lays out all the reasons > why we won't and why it's useless to ask. So I'm still confused > what the policy is. I would be happy with a policy that says > "The archives are graven on stone tablets. Don't bother asking." > but if we are willing to editorialize in extreme cases then maybe > the second part needs to be modified. I didn't say it earlier but I agree with Tom that the text is much too verbose. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +