Re: Not ready for 8.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Nathan Buchanan
Subject Re: Not ready for 8.3
Date
Msg-id d51c18ed0705151842k17bb22ads21073e997b8a09d2@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Not ready for 8.3  (Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>)
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On 5/15/07, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> >> They are not stable.  The items should point to the archives, which are
> >> supposedly more stable.  (I had already fixed one item in PatchStatus
> >> this morning).  Really it would be much nicer to have links using the
> >> Message-Id but I doubt that's at all doable.
> >
> > hrm - I see so is there a particular reason for that behaviour ?
>
> They're stable until Bruce removes something from the queue. When
> something is removed, it's renumbered.
>
> It's how mhonarc works. It's the same with the archives - if we delete a
> mail, they get renumbered. So we never should delete, we should just
> blank out, but it has happened a couple of times.

As I proposed for many times, why don't we add message number to each
subject line in mail? For example like this:

[HACKERS: 12345] Re: Not ready for 8.3

This way, we could always obtain stable (logical) pointer, without
reling on particular archival infrastructure.

This sounds like a good idea to me - though I'm just a lurker on the list.

Nathan

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