Re: Adding xreflable

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:30:34AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > Well, I would like both the SQL command references and the application
> > > man pages to have xreflabel text.
> >
> > I guess my point is that in the other several thousand pages of the docs,
> > we just use <xref linkend="sql-whatever"/> or <xref
> > linkend="app-whatever"/>, and it looks fine and works fine. Why are you
> > insisting on doing it differently in the release notes?
> >
> > (I also have a vague memory that we used to use special xref labels for
> > SQL commands, and got rid of it. So this seems like undoing history
> > with no solid reasoning. That was with the previous doc toolchain of
> > course, but it's still the case that we don't seem to need this.)
>
> I think I see it now. Our README.links says:
>
> <xref>
> use to get chapter/section number from the title of the target
> --> link, or xreflabel if defined at the target, or refentrytitle if target
> --> is a refentry; has no close tag
> http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/xref.html
>
> I was not aware that refentry can pull from refentrytitle. I just
> tested it for pg_upgrade, and it worked fine. I will adjust the release
> notes now to use them. Thanks.

Done. Thanks for the tips.

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