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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: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2020-07-10T16:28:17Z
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2020-Jul-10, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> 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.

> Um, the comp.ai.genetic FAQ can still be found, eg. 
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ai-faq/genetic/part1/

So it is, although that also shows it hasn't been updated since 2001.

OTOH, that vintage of info is probably just fine for understanding GEQO.

I'll go update that pointer and remove the other links per Daniel's
patch.

			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.