From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Joe Hellerstein's "Looking Back at Postgres" paper
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:12:02 -0400
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> Unrelated to that, but reading history.sgml I found this sentend at the end of
> the page to be sort of misleading:
> "Details about what has happened in PostgreSQL since then can be found
> in Appendix E."
> While technically true, it seems a bit overpromising in a history section to
> refer to the release notes which are written in a very different way from the
> prose here (and the release notes are not even in Appendix E anymore).
Well, it made sense with our old practice of including all the notes
back to 1996 in appendix E. But now, not so much. The simplest fix
would be to change this text to point to
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/
regards, tom lane
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