Re: Stale external URL in doc?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: Stale external URL in doc?
Date: 2020-07-09 13:51:51
Message-ID: 1808659.1594302711@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> As a short term fix we should either a) remove these links completely or b)
> link to archived copies of the pages on archive.org; or c) find a more
> appropriate pages to link to. A quick search didn't turn up anything I would
> prefer for (c), and I'm not sure what he legality of linking to a cached copy
> is, so I would advocate for (a).

+1. It should have been obvious just from the spelling of this URL that
it wasn't intended to be a long term stable location. Digging in the
git history shows we've already updated it twice, and I wonder how many
changes there were that we didn't notice.

Just reverting bbd3bdba3 seems appropriate to me.

regards, tom lane

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