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Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>

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From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>
Cc: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-12T04:54:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
2010/1/12 Matteo Beccati <php@beccati.com>:
> So, I've decided to spend a bit more time on this and here is a proof of concept web app that displays mailing list archives reading from the AOX database:
>
> http://archives.beccati.org/

Seems to work.

> Please take it as an exercise I've made trying to learn how to use symfony this afternoon. It's not feature complete, nor probably very scalable, but at least it features attachment download ;)
>
> http://archives.beccati.org/pgsql-hackers/message/37

:-)

So just to put this into perspective and give anyone paying attention
an idea of the pain that lies ahead should they decide to work on
this:

- We need to import the old archives (of which there are hundreds of
thousands of messages, the first few years of which have, umm, minimal
headers.
- We need to generate thread indexes
- We need to re-generate the original URLs for backwards compatibility

Now there's encouragement :-)

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com