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Subject: Re: Using more tha one index per table
From: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:55:42 -0700
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On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> Steve Atkins wrote:
>> If http://postgresql.org/docs/9.0/* were to 302 redirect to =
http://postgresql.org/docs/current/* while 9.0 is the current release =
(and similarly for 9.1 and so on) I suspect we'd find many more links to =
current and fewer links to specific versions after a year or two.
>> =20
>=20
> True, but this would leave people with no way to bookmark a permanent =
link to whatever is the current version, which will represent a =
regression for how some people want the site to work.

Well, they'd still be able to link to the specific version with =
../9.0/.. and have that link to the version 9.0 docs forever, just not =
as easily as a copy/paste. That's the whole point, though, to make the =
wanted behaviour easier than the  unwanted.

>  Also, this and the idea to add a "this is an old version" note to =
each old page will end up increasing work for the already overloaded web =
team managing the site.  Neither are unreasonable ideas, there's just =
some subtle bits to making either happen that would need to be worked =
out, and I don't know who would have time to work through everything =
involved.

Yup. I'm not convinced it's a great idea either - but it's about the =
only thing that'd get people to link to ../current/.. by default.

Cheers,
  Steve