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Re: Stale external URL in doc?

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2020-07-20T19:39:50Z
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On Thu, Jul  9, 2020 at 09:51:51AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> > As a short term fix we should either a) remove these links completely or b)
> > link to archived copies of the pages on archive.org; or c) find a more
> > appropriate pages to link to.  A quick search didn't turn up anything I would
> > prefer for (c), and I'm not sure what he legality of linking to a cached copy
> > is, so I would advocate for (a).
> 
> +1.  It should have been obvious just from the spelling of this URL that
> it wasn't intended to be a long term stable location.  Digging in the
> git history shows we've already updated it twice, and I wonder how many
> changes there were that we didn't notice.
> 
> Just reverting bbd3bdba3 seems appropriate to me.

Yes, I was keeping those URLs specifically to document intermediate
certificate usage, but now that we have documentation of how to set up
intermediates, we don't need it anymore.

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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.