Re: Question about article identification and backends.

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at> writes:

>> the headers in the hash, at least for the UID), for most purposes, I
>> suspect even just a simple monotonically increasing integer serial
>> number would be sufficient.
>
> I fear not - concurrency issues would make the whole thing fall apart.

Certainly, but when I mentioned the monotonically increasing serial
number approach, I wasn't thinking about the RMS system.  I was
thinking about a case where Gnus is the only one handling incoming
messages.  i.e. an approach where there is no "Gnus unique number"
until Gnus assigns one.  More specifically, I was thinking in terms of
an SQL serial column where the DB handles the concurrency issues.  I
mentioned the RMS system primarily because it also discussed the
values of a permanent message ID (and because it sounds like an
interesting system).  Though if implementing/using RMS, I probably
would want to include the headers in the hash (as they discuss
speculatively).

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