Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 17:43:46 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Legal Notice page in 10 not "backwards compatible" in
 online docs
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Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> The Legal Notice page has in 10 changed from being uppercased to lowercased,
> and in the process the site no longer sees it as being present in previous
> version of the documentation:
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/LEGALNOTICE.html
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/legalnotice.html
> 
> The 9.6 page lists "This page in other versions:” from 7.4 to 9.6 while the 10
> version of the same page (albeit with minor stylistic changes) is only listed
> as being present in 10 and devel.  Not sure if the case change is what caused
> that to happen though, it was just what caught my attention (looking at the
> code I was not able to quickly find the cause).
> 
> While not the most critical issue, consistency with earlier versions would be a
> good thing as the page does exist there.

I think this is worth fixing -- perhaps not because the "legal notice"
page itself is terribly important to carry forward, but rather because a
fix would presumably also fix the pg_xlogdump -> pg_waldump ones, which
have the same problem and from a user's point of view are more critical.

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Álvaro Herrera                https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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