Re: Patch review

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Greg Smith wrote:
>> If you look at how the archives store things, the threading in there  
>> sometimes isn't sufficient to support this.  As an example, I was just  
>> trying to read all the messages in the "Group Commit" thread that Bruce  
>> has tracked on "Patches Held For PostgreSQL 8.4", and for reasons I can't 
>> figure out it's split into two threads in the archives.

> Perhaps it's because it was split in two by a monthly boundary?  (I
> didn't look.)

Most likely.  Somebody on the www team really ought to make an effort
to fix that sometime --- it reduces the value of the archives noticeably
if you can't rely on the thread links.
        regards, tom lane