On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 19:59, Joe Abbate <jma@freedomcircle.com> wrote:
> On 05/31/2011 01:13 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Just to be clear, crawling the current archives for this info is
>> probably the easiest part of the whole project. In fact, the majority
>> of the information you'd need is *already* in a postgresql database on
>> search.postgresql.org.
>
> Does that database have the bug number, PG version and OS as separate
> columns, or is it simply an index over all the messages across all the
> lists? I think a table just of bug info would be useful at this time,
> e.g., to load a potential candidate. However, the message database --if
> it includes the message bodies-- would obviously be easier to work with
> than web crawling.
It does not have all those details, but it has the sender, subject and
bodies broken out. So it's definitely an easier starting point.
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Magnus Hagander
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