Re: Release Notes Archive Patch

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 5:18 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "Jonathan S. Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > On 2/13/19 10:13 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The patch doesn't convey a lot to my mind, so I have to ask: exactly
> >> what URLs would this present?
>
> > I'm a bit confuse by the question, so I'll answer it from two angles.
>
> Neither of those are quite what I meant. As I understood Andres'
> complaint, it was that right now we have URLs like
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/release-9-6-5.html
>
> but those are going to be 404 beginning tomorrow. It sounds from your
> response like this patch isn't meant to restore those cross-version URLs.
> Which is fine by me, really, but we might get pushback about it. If so,
> there might be material for follow-on work to redirect those into this
> new set of URLs.
>

We can make those become redirects at the webserver level, I'm pretty sure.
Seems like it should be easy enough to regexp-match it for a simple mapping.

I'm less certain if we can have that tested and deployed by tomorrow.
(Which goes for the whole patch from Jonathan as well)

//Magnus