Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> Why not hash the URL? Something like:
>> Http://postgresopen.org/archive/743257890976432
> I suggested that upthread...
Don't like the hashing idea because that would be useless for searching,
eg, one's own local mail archives. Also, if you are looking at a message
in your own mail store when composing a commit message (which I generally
am, don't know about other committers) how are you going to get the hash?
I think it's important to have the message-ID in cleartext.
AFAICS the proposal here is to go from, eg,
Discussion: <CAF4Au4w6rrH_j1bvVhzpOsRiHCog7sGJ3LSX0tY8ZdwhHT88LQ@mail.gmail.com>
to
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAF4Au4w6rrH_j1bvVhzpOsRiHCog7sGJ3LSX0tY8ZdwhHT88LQ@mail.gmail.com
which is annoying, but the line was overlength already. Maybe we could
drop the Discussion: prefix and just write a URL:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAF4Au4w6rrH_j1bvVhzpOsRiHCog7sGJ3LSX0tY8ZdwhHT88LQ@mail.gmail.com
That's still overlength for gmail message-IDs, though, so I'm not sure
it's worth losing the label for.
regards, tom lane
