Re: client auth docs seem to have devolved

On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 06:53, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:43 PM Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> While following an old link to
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/auth-methods.html
>>
>> I see a list of links to authentication methods. However:
>>
>> When I hit the current version
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/auth-methods.html
>>
>> There are absolutely no links...
>>
>>
> That's because the structure of the docs changed. You need to hit "up",
> which will take you to
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/client-authentication.html, which
> now has the list of links. Note how the different methods used to be
> 20.3.x, and are now directly listed as 20.y.
>
> I'm unsure if that was intentional in the upstream docs, but that's what
> makes the website behave like it does.
>

Fair enough but

20.3. Authentication Methods
The following sections describe the authentication methods in more detail.

certainly is misleading.

Thanks,

Dave

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