Re: Legal Notice page in 10 not "backwards compatible" in online docs

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > The Legal Notice page has in 10 changed from being uppercased to
> lowercased,
> > and in the process the site no longer sees it as being present in
> previous
> > version of the documentation:
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/LEGALNOTICE.html
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/legalnotice.html
> >
> > The 9.6 page lists "This page in other versions:” from 7.4 to 9.6 while
> the 10
> > version of the same page (albeit with minor stylistic changes) is only
> listed
> > as being present in 10 and devel. Not sure if the case change is what
> caused
> > that to happen though, it was just what caught my attention (looking at
> the
> > code I was not able to quickly find the cause).
> >
> > While not the most critical issue, consistency with earlier versions
> would be a
> > good thing as the page does exist there.
>
> I think this is worth fixing -- perhaps not because the "legal notice"
> page itself is terribly important to carry forward, but rather because a
> fix would presumably also fix the pg_xlogdump -> pg_waldump ones, which
> have the same problem and from a user's point of view are more critical.
>

Those are really two different things.

The easiest way to fix the one that Daniel reported would be to just make
it have the same name as before, wouldn't it? That would also automatically
fix any other cases that would possibly link to LEGALNOTICE. (AFAIK this is
the only file that was caps before)

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