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Re: Stale external URL in doc?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2020-07-09T22:51:18Z
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> Taking a look at other links to external resources, most links seemed to
> resolve still (but I didn't test all of them).  I did find another one on the
> GEQO page which is now dead without the content available elsewhere, as well as
> a larger problem with the AIX references.

> We have a list of links to the AIX 6.1 documentation which no longer works as
> IBM only provides docset PDFs for 6.1.  Looking that 7.x documentation they
> have reorganized enough to make the older links not directly translatable.  I
> do wonder if updating this list is worth the effort, or if it will only lead to
> us revisiting this once IBM does another site change.

> The attached suggestion removes the reported SSL links, the FAQ linked to on
> GEQO and all the IBM links, fully realizing that it might be controversial to
> some extent.

+1 for just deleting all of it.  I don't think we need to be telling users
of obsolete AIX versions how to run their systems.  The comp.ai.genetic
FAQ link might be more of a loss, but on the other hand I'd be willing to
bet it wasn't very up to date anymore.  Netnews has been moribund for a
long time :-(

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Fix conversion table generator scripts.

  2. doc: Refresh more URLs in the docs

  3. Doc: update or remove dead external links.

  4. Rewrite the perl scripts to produce our Unicode conversion tables.