Re: Dead link in ltree documentation

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 03:46:06PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
> > The Russian Postgres Company
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:59 PM, PG Doc comments form
> > <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> > > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> > >
> > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/ltree.html
> > > Description:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ltree.html links to
> > > www.dmoz.org which now returns a 403, since being closed down in 2017.
> > >
> > > Maybe it could link to the mirror https://dmoztools.net/ or the
> wikipedia
> > > page instead.
> >
> > Attached is a small patch.
>
> > --- ltree.sgml.orig 2017-12-20 16:40:26.000000000 +0300
> > +++ ltree.sgml 2018-04-04 15:43:01.000000000 +0300
> > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
> > length of a label path must be less than 65kB, but keeping it under
> 2kB is
> > preferable. In practice this is not a major limitation; for example,
> > the longest label path in the DMOZ catalog (<ulink
> > - url="http://www.dmoz.org"></ulink>) is about 240 bytes.
> > + url="http://www.dmoztools.net"></ulink>) is about 271 bytes.
> > </para>
> >
> > <para>
>
> Patch applied back through 9.3. Thanks.
>

​I'm not seeing the value in providing a link, especially one that we don't
control, here. Futhermore, we could probably drop the whole "In
practice..." sentence. But if not at least put a period after "limitation"
and drop the example and link.

​David J.