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?
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