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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 14:43:09 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

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.

			regards, tom lane

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