From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, mdavid344(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Dead link to hp docs |
Date: | 2018-07-03 13:09:37 |
Message-ID: | CABUevEwgnYZ7WXrD7xjDTAaw=F2NPAVa=wp2rtQkGyY8PWez6Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On 2018-Jul-02, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >> Here are all the broken links in the source tree:
> >>
> >> doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml:
> >> Wrong: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04.html
> >> Correct: http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04.html
> >>
> >> doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml:
> >> Wrong: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04s02.html
> >> Correct: http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/
> ch04s02.html
>
> > I think HP break their site on a regular basis.
>
> Well, more to the point, it's obvious from the very form of these links
> that HP don't intend them to be stable externally-referenceable URLs.
> I remember being unhappy from the beginning that Bruce would try to link
> to them in our docs, and I think we're seeing now that indeed they're
> not trustworthy permanent URLs.
>
> > Maybe we should be
> > looking for some more stable source of similar information?
>
> Exactly.
>
+<many>. I've been thinking that for a while. And it's not the first time
they changed things on us.
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