Re: Size of TODO.detail - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Size of TODO.detail
Date
Msg-id 200101301718.MAA16107@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Size of TODO.detail  (Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>)
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > pgsql/docs/TODO.detail now is 1.1MB.  I just removed 'subquery' which
> > shrunk it from 1.5MB.  Comments?
> 
> Yow!  Nice stuff in there, that is for sure.  Of course, that's alot of
> space.  What to do? Remove all the unnecessary e-mail headers? 
> Signatures?  etc?  excessive quotes? Isn't there a e-mail header
> stripping utility around that can un-header things, leaving some but not
> all?

I just tried 'printmail' that strips off most of the unused stuff:
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>Subject: [HACKERS] Fix for RENAMETo: PostgreSQL-development
<pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>Date:Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:59:56 -0500 (EST)
 

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#$ printmail tablespaces >/bjm/x#$ l /bjm/x-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  328855 Jan 30 12:16 /bjm/x#$ l tablespaces
-rw-r--r-- 1 postgres  wheel  495730 Jan 19 00:09 tablespaces
 

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Doesn't seem like it saves enough, and it will prevent people from
reading the mailbox in their mail readers.

Compress takes it to 100k, which is much smaller.  Of course, the tar
file has it compress too, so pre-compressing it doesn't buy us anything.

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