Re: Shorter archive URLs

On 2019-Jul-14, Tom Lane wrote:

> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > This means that instead of being:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABUevEyqGVV-s1yXQBsTpoPDCHy79j-yDtJcucrPb9Hh4CFTNg%40mail.gmail.com
> > The url would be:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/Z0oaTfo56bV4tke6-r_PKJstHF8=
> 
> FWIW, I don't care for that one bit. Yeah, message IDs are pretty
> opaque in many cases, but at least they're not designed and built to
> be opaque.  An example of what would be lost is the ability to find
> a message given one of these URLs in any other archive, such as one's
> personal mail archive.  (Unless one sets up a mapping table to match
> this transform, which would be a big PITA.)

+1

> > Any access to the old message-id based URLs would automatically receive a
> > permanent redirect to the new ones.
> 
> If you remove the ability to find a message in the archive from its
> original message ID, I will be REALLY unhappy, because that will break
> lookups in the other direction (ie, given a message in my local files,
> go find it --- and its thread --- in the PG archives).

Me too.

> On the whole I don't see any good reason to change this.

+1

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