Duplicate bugs (was Re: BUG #5547: not able to connect to postgres through the oracle using Linux ODBC driver for Postgres) - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Craig Ringer
> <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
>> I wonder if there's any way to have the bug report form de-duplicate posts
>> based on similar/identical text in sequential submissions.

> Not without starting down the path of writing a full blown bug
> tracker. The current form just assigns a number from a sequence and
> then forwards the text to the mailing list. None of the contents are
> stored in the database.

It seems though that it must be very easy to hit "submit" twice, because
we keep seeing these dups.  Is there anything the webpage could do to
discourage that?  Maybe take you to a different page after submitting?

            regards, tom lane