Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-01-11T14:20:19Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
> No, the current archiver is a set of MBOX files that are processed
> incrementally by mhonarc.
>
> (yes, this is why it doesn't scale)
>
> *search* is in a postgresql database, but it doesn't contain the
> entire messages - doesn't have attachments for examples - only the
> parts it has web-scraped off the the current archives.
>   

Fixing this mess and giving us decent archives with guaranteed 
downloadable patches and good search would be a nice job for someone who 
wants to contribute without having to cut or review core code.

cheers

andrew