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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Noah Misch <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 01:38:57 -0500
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Noah Misch <[email protected]> writes:
>> Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
>>> I wonder if these standalone things are really worthwhile.

> I wonder how difficult it would be to make sufficient link data available when
> building the standalone files.  There would be no linking per se; we would
> just need the referent's text fragment emitted where the <xref> tag appears.

IIRC, that's basically what the "workaround" is, except it's not very
automated.  Even if it were automated, though, there's still a problem:
such links aren't really *useful* in flat text format.  I think that
forcing the author to actually think about what to put there in the
flat text version is a good thing, if we're going to retain the flat
text version at all.

			regards, tom lane


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