From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: Question about article identification and backends.
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:57:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3el2uejry.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84n0hir79r.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> ( =?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann's_message_of?= "Mon, 19 May 2003 22:49:52 +0200")
kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> If all articles from 1 to 100 already exist, and we are inserting a
>> new article at position 42, then the new read list is 1-41,43-101.
>> The positions of all the later articles have to be changed.
>
> Why 101? We were talking about all articles having a unique id in
> the whole backend. This means that there was no article 42
> previously in the group -- there is only one article with number 42.
Ah, ok. That might work. But then how far would we be from the
largest Emacs integer if we sequentially numbered all the articles in
all the groups on a large news server?
paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-19 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-17 19:56 Rob Browning
2003-05-17 21:29 ` Andreas Fuchs
2003-05-18 2:57 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-18 3:19 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-18 9:52 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-18 18:38 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-18 18:50 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-19 13:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-19 13:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-19 16:57 ` Paul Jarc
2003-05-19 16:47 ` Paul Jarc
2003-05-19 20:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-19 20:57 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2003-05-20 10:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-20 17:33 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-22 7:04 ` Kai Großjohann
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