From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, mdavid344@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: Dead link to hp docs
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Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
	message dated "Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:04:57 -0400"
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2018-Jul-02, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Here are all the broken links in the source tree:
>> 
>> doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml:
>> Wrong:   http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04.html
>> Correct: http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04.html
>> 
>> doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml:
>> Wrong: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04s02.html
>> Correct: http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04s02.html

> I think HP break their site on a regular basis.

Well, more to the point, it's obvious from the very form of these links
that HP don't intend them to be stable externally-referenceable URLs.
I remember being unhappy from the beginning that Bruce would try to link
to them in our docs, and I think we're seeing now that indeed they're
not trustworthy permanent URLs.

> Maybe we should be
> looking for some more stable source of similar information?

Exactly.

			regards, tom lane