Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 10 manual breaks links with anchors

On 10/16/17 03:19, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> I don't know if this is intentional, but the Postgres 10 manual started to use lowercase IDs as anchors in the manual.
>
> So, if I have e.g.: the following URL open in my browser:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createindex.html#sql-createindex-concurrently
>
> I cannot simply switch to an older version by replacing "current" with e.g. "9.5" because in the 9.5 manual the anchor was all uppercase, and the URL would need to be:
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> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-createindex.html#SQL-CREATEINDEX-CONCURRENTLY
>
> Is this intentional?
>
> This also makes "cleaning" up links in e.g. StackOverflow that point to outdated versions of the manual a bit more cumbersome.

Here is a patch that can be applied to PG 10 to put the upper case
anchors back.

The question perhaps is whether we want to maintain this patch
indefinitely, or whether a clean break is better.

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