Thread: Mail list archives cut off messages starting at "^From "

Look at
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-04/msg00167.php
This has cut off the message starting at the useful comment, which
read like this:

From a development standpoint, that suggests a couple of TODO items:
* Look harder at whether VACUUM can scan the index in physical instead
  of logical order.
* See whether ordinary btree maintenance (ie page splits) can do
  anything to maintain/improve the physical ordering of the index.

I suppose something is being rather lax about parsing unix mbox format
and is thinking any line starting with "From " is a new message.  If
I'm right, this message will be busted as soon as it gets into the
archives, too ...

            regards, tom lane

will take a look into it ...

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Look at
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-04/msg00167.php
> This has cut off the message starting at the useful comment, which
> read like this:
>
> From a development standpoint, that suggests a couple of TODO items:
> * Look harder at whether VACUUM can scan the index in physical instead
>  of logical order.
> * See whether ordinary btree maintenance (ie page splits) can do
>  anything to maintain/improve the physical ordering of the index.
>
> I suppose something is being rather lax about parsing unix mbox format
> and is thinking any line starting with "From " is a new message.  If
> I'm right, this message will be busted as soon as it gets into the
> archives, too ...
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

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