Re: v7.2.3/v7.2.2 installed docs outdated?

From: ljb <lbayuk(at)mindspring(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: v7.2.3/v7.2.2 installed docs outdated?
Date: 2002-10-12 00:19:44
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hs(at)cybertec(dot)at wrote:
> ljb wrote:
>
>>I'm not sure what's going on, but it seems to me that although the
>>documentation source files in doc/src/sgml are being updated with each
>>release, when I install PostgreSQL v7.2.2 or v7.2.3 I get older HTML
>>documentation titled "PostgreSQL 7.2.1 Documentation" installed. And it's
>>missing the newer release information. Perhaps the release process is not
>>updating doc/postgres.tar.gz (which is used as the install source). Could
>>somebody check this?
>>
>>
>
> 7.2.2 ist just a bugfix (fixing security problems and various other
> problems such as a core dump in the GIS extensions).
> The documentation is the same.

No, it isn't the same. The sources were updated, for example
postgresql-7.2.3/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
contains newer information about the 7.2.2 and 7.2.3 releases. But when
you "make install", the 7.2.1 documentation gets installed.

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