Re: URL for latest PostgreSQL documentation?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: URL for latest PostgreSQL documentation?
Date: 2015-03-17 06:08:08
Message-ID: CAKFQuwb9zOkGvi0Y0OyqTHTaghjruSZn-XTaPNXemuK2_3hL2Q@mail.gmail.com
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While its true you are going to end up pointing to features that may not
yet be in a released version you still have to deal with that dynamic if
your user is using 9.0 and you point them to the 9.4 (even if you call it
latest) documentation.

It should be reasonably simple to add a rewrite directive to whatever
webserver we are using so that "latest" acts as an alias that can be
updated once per release; though maybe that isn't the best solution
depending on traffic volumes...I've never operated a site at the scale our
documentation likely sees.

David J.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org> wrote:

> That's close but as you say it shows the current development version,
> which isn't where we want to send users, I think...
>
> Ideally there would be a similar
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/latest/static/index.html?
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 7:59 AM, David G. Johnston <
> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/index.html
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure when the "devel" version is updated but if you want
>> a single source of authority that would be it.
>>
>> David J.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>> A small suggestion for the website...
>>>
>>> As someone maintaining the .NET driver for PostgreSQL, it would be good
>>> to be able to link to the latest version of the docs, including to specific
>>> pages within the docs but without referencing a specific version number.
>>> For example, links to documentation pages are included inside our source
>>> code (for doc generation), and I'd like to avoid a pass to bump version
>>> numbers every time a release is made...
>>>
>>> Shay
>>>
>>
>>
>

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