From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dim@tapoueh.org>,
        Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>,
        Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>,
        "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz@postgresql.org>,
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Subject: Re: mailing list redirect for bug numbers?
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Comments: In-reply-to Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
> If we just agree to always use the message-ID of the first message in
> the thread when we're closing out a bug, and people are happy with using
> message-ID, then I'm not really sure what the bug # is doing for us (and
> I see that that question from my prior email wasn't answered).

Yeah, I'm coming to the conclusion that there's nothing worth changing
here.  In an ideal world we'd have a bug number for every bug, but we'd
have to give up more than that's worth.

			regards, tom lane