Re: Add docs stub for recovery.conf

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add docs stub for recovery.conf
Date: 2020-11-13 03:39:52
Message-ID: 20201113033952.GH4506@momjian.us
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:31:24AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why the solution I proposed is not acceptable, and why we
> have to invent a different one instead? The website  redirect is good and all,
> but doesn't really solve the problem, and I still don't know what's wrong with
> just fixing the docs...

Because at a certain point the number of _old_ names in the docs
obscures exactly how to operate the current software. We have tried
keeping stuff around, and we are very bad at removing stuff.

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