Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-02-01T16:41:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> * A sends a message >> * B replies, cc'ing A and the list >> * B's reply to list is delayed by greylisting >> * A replies to B's reply (cc'ing list) >> * A's reply goes through immediately >> * B's reply shows up a bit later >> >> That happens pretty frequently IME. > Yeah - and sometimes the delay can be DAYS. Greylisting wouldn't explain a delay of more than an hour or so. OTOH, if B's reply got held for moderation for some reason, then yeah it could be days :-(. But in that case the rest of the list didn't see it in real-time either, so having it show up out of "logical" sequence in the archive doesn't seem like a terrible reflection of reality. I'm just concerned about the threading not being sensitive to skews on the order of a few minutes --- those are extremely common. regards, tom lane