diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgwalinspect.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgwalinspect.sgml
index 62d9f9eb22..9a0241a8d6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/pgwalinspect.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgwalinspect.sgml
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ combined_size_percentage     | 2.8634072910530795
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
 
-   <varlistentry id="pgwalinspect-funcs-pg-get-wal-block-info">
+   <varlistentry>
     <term>
      <function>pg_get_wal_block_info(start_lsn pg_lsn, end_lsn pg_lsn) returns setof record</function>
     </term>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-html-common.xsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-html-common.xsl
index 3f85ea9536..9df2782ce4 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-html-common.xsl
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet-html-common.xsl
@@ -301,120 +301,4 @@ set       toc,title
   </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
 
-<!-- Override the standard section heading generation to add an id link -->
-<xsl:template name="section.heading">
-  <xsl:param name="section" select="."/>
-  <xsl:param name="level" select="1"/>
-  <xsl:param name="allow-anchors" select="1"/>
-  <xsl:param name="title"/>
-  <xsl:param name="class" select="'title'"/>
-
-  <xsl:variable name="id">
-    <xsl:choose>
-      <!-- Make sure the subtitle doesn't get the same id as the title -->
-      <xsl:when test="self::subtitle">
-        <xsl:call-template name="object.id">
-          <xsl:with-param name="object" select="."/>
-        </xsl:call-template>
-      </xsl:when>
-      <!-- if title is in an *info wrapper, get the grandparent -->
-      <xsl:when test="contains(local-name(..), 'info')">
-        <xsl:call-template name="object.id">
-          <xsl:with-param name="object" select="../.."/>
-        </xsl:call-template>
-      </xsl:when>
-      <xsl:otherwise>
-        <xsl:call-template name="object.id">
-          <xsl:with-param name="object" select=".."/>
-        </xsl:call-template>
-      </xsl:otherwise>
-    </xsl:choose>
-  </xsl:variable>
-
-  <!-- HTML H level is one higher than section level -->
-  <xsl:variable name="hlevel">
-    <xsl:choose>
-      <!-- highest valid HTML H level is H6; so anything nested deeper
-           than 5 levels down just becomes H6 -->
-      <xsl:when test="$level &gt; 5">6</xsl:when>
-      <xsl:otherwise>
-        <xsl:value-of select="$level + 1"/>
-      </xsl:otherwise>
-    </xsl:choose>
-  </xsl:variable>
-  <xsl:element name="h{$hlevel}" namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
-    <xsl:attribute name="class"><xsl:value-of select="$class"/></xsl:attribute>
-    <xsl:if test="$css.decoration != '0'">
-      <xsl:if test="$hlevel&lt;3">
-        <xsl:attribute name="style">clear: both</xsl:attribute>
-      </xsl:if>
-    </xsl:if>
-    <xsl:if test="$allow-anchors != 0">
-      <xsl:call-template name="anchor">
-        <xsl:with-param name="node" select="$section"/>
-        <xsl:with-param name="conditional" select="0"/>
-      </xsl:call-template>
-    </xsl:if>
-    <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
-    <xsl:call-template name="pg.id.link">
-      <xsl:with-param name="object" select="$section"/>
-    </xsl:call-template>
-  </xsl:element>
-</xsl:template>
-
-<!-- Override the standard varlistentry/term generation to add an id link
-     after the last term -->
-<xsl:template match="varlistentry/term">
-  <xsl:apply-imports/>
-  <xsl:if test="position() = last()">
-    <xsl:call-template name="pg.id.link">
-      <xsl:with-param name="object" select="parent::varlistentry"/>
-    </xsl:call-template>
-  </xsl:if>
-</xsl:template>
-
-<!-- Creates a link pointing to an id within the document -->
-<xsl:template name="pg.id.link">
-  <xsl:param name="object" select="."/>
-  <xsl:choose>
-    <xsl:when test="$object/@id or $object/@xml:id">
-      <a>
-        <xsl:attribute name="href">
-          <xsl:text>#</xsl:text>
-          <xsl:call-template name="object.id">
-            <xsl:with-param name="object" select="$object"/>
-          </xsl:call-template>
-        </xsl:attribute>
-        <xsl:attribute name="class">
-          <xsl:text>id_link</xsl:text>
-        </xsl:attribute>
-        <xsl:text> #</xsl:text>
-      </a>
-    </xsl:when>
-    <xsl:otherwise>
-      <!-- Only complain about varlistentries if at least one entry in the list has an id -->
-      <xsl:if test="name($object) != 'varlistentry' or $object/parent::variablelist/varlistentry[@id]">
-        <xsl:message terminate="yes">
-          <xsl:text>A </xsl:text>
-          <xsl:value-of select ="name($object)"/>
-          <xsl:text> element at path '</xsl:text>
-          <xsl:for-each select="$object/ancestor::*">
-            <xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
-            <xsl:value-of select ="name(.)"/>
-            <xsl:if test="@id|@xml:id">
-              <xsl:text>[@</xsl:text>
-              <xsl:value-of select ="name(@id|@xml:id)"/>
-              <xsl:text> = '</xsl:text>
-              <xsl:value-of select ="@id"/>
-              <xsl:text>']</xsl:text>
-            </xsl:if>
-          </xsl:for-each>
-          <xsl:text>' is missing an id. Please add one to make it usable</xsl:text>
-          <xsl:text> as stable anchor in the public HTML documentation.</xsl:text>
-        </xsl:message>
-      </xsl:if>
-    </xsl:otherwise>
-  </xsl:choose>
-</xsl:template>
-
 </xsl:stylesheet>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.css b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.css
index 15bcc95d41..cc14efa1ca 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.css
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.css
@@ -169,13 +169,3 @@ acronym		{ font-style: inherit; }
     width: 75%;
   }
 }
-
-/* Links to ids of headers and definition terms */
-a.id_link {
-        color: inherit;
-        visibility: hidden;
-}
-
-*:hover > a.id_link {
-        visibility: visible;
-}