Re: archive threads across months (was Re: [HACKERS]
Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
From: Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-06-10T17:57:35Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Jun 10, 2006, at 12:20 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes: >>> (The fact that archives.p.o can't properly link between threads that >>> cross month boundaries is pretty annoying...) >> >> Indeed, I was just annoyed by that (again) a few minutes ago. Anyone >> on -www have an idea how to fix it? > > Someone that knows mhonarc better then I might know of a way, but, > I don't believe cross-month linking is actually possible ... > > majordomo stores archives by month in mbox format ... mhonarc > processes each month and deposits it into a directory YYYY-MM ... > without merging all of the mbox files into one huge archive file, > and eliminating the YYYY-MM subdirectories, I don't believe that > you could do this ... > > But, as I said, someone with more knowledge about mhonarc may know > a way of doing this ... ? Are we wed to mhonarc? Is there another archiving tool we could use? -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461