Re: Mailing archive URL stability

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Decibel! wrote:
>>> Moving to -www
>>>
>>> On Feb 9, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Yeah, it happens that way for me too. The other huge, huge problem with
>>>> it is the lack of stability of URLs for the items in the list, which
>>>> makes it difficult to identify which item you're talking about.
>>> Wasn't someone going to look into having the mailing list generate a
>>> header that would be universally unique and un-changing?
>> The archive URLs *are* stable. It's the ones in Bruces patch-queue that
>> aren't, and that's because he sometimes deletes mail. In the archives we
>> don't delete, so they stay stable.
>
> Still, it would be pretty useful to have a facility for searching
> messages by Message-Id (which are unique and immutable). If the "patch
> queue" consisted solely of Message-Ids, it would be pretty easy and
> quick to locate the exact message in the archives.

Oh, I certainly don't argue with that.

I know Dave started working on something else, but I don't think he's
working on it actively atm.

//Magnus