Re: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too
От | Bruce Momjian |
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Тема | Re: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too |
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Msg-id | 200608011911.k71JBQl12986@momjian.us обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>) |
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Re: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too
("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Mail archive indexes are broken, URLs too ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>) |
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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 bruce@momjian.us > EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com > > + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org -- Bruce Momjian bruce@momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
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