On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: >> > I love seeing references to email threads in commit messages. It would >> > make them a lot friendlier though if a full http URL were included >> > instead of just a Message-ID, >> >> I've intentionally not done that, because it does not seem very >> future-proof. The message ids will hopefully be unique indefinitely far >> into the future, but the location of our archives could move. > > It won't. We have far too many in the archives to risk breaking them. > In fact, we (Magnus) went great lengths to implement a system so that > old-style PHP links (of which we have a bunch in very old archives, > including in commit messages) continue to work to this day. We're far > too invested in the system now, because of how successful it has proved > to be.
Right - we go out of our way to ensure we don't break URLs. That's why anoncvs.postgresql.org is still actively maintained for example. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
