A user report of misinterpretation of 'unsupported versions'

From: Daniel Farina <daniel(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: A user report of misinterpretation of 'unsupported versions'
Date: 2013-07-10 23:03:41
Message-ID: CAAZKuFa857Jz59ZhCVfhsnUn1GFKqdJEpGbN+onSMHm+j5O33Q@mail.gmail.com
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I had a report from a user asking how they could VACUUM in the future
under 9.3, when it's no longer supported (which took me aback). He
referred me to a manual page:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-vacuum.html

I realized, then, that the problem is the wordsmithing of:

"This page in other versions: 9.2 / 9.1 / 9.0 / 8.4 | Unsupported
versions: 9.3 / 8.3 / 8.2 / 8.1 / 8.0 / 7.4 / 7.3 / 7.2 / 7.1 / devel"

An entirely reasonable person would decide that the VACUUM command is
unsupported in any of the itemized versions.

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