On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:50:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I do have a modest proposal for improving things going forward.
> How about, if a commit purports to fix a particular bug, that
> we say "Fixes: https://postgr.es/m/<message-id>" in place of
> our current habit of saying "Discussion: ...". For bugs that
> have come in through the bug form, the bug number is trivially
> extractable from the message-id these days; but this method
> works for any mailing list report, not just those.
Wouldn't it be the same as making the effort to have a proper
"Reported-by" field for each actual bug fix then? We already
have that attached to some of the commit logs for bug fixes. I
personally try to follow that pattern.
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Michael