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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Dead link to hp docs
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 15:09:37 +0200
Message-ID: <CABUevEwgnYZ7WXrD7xjDTAaw=F2NPAVa=wp2rtQkGyY8PWez6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> 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.
>

+<many>. I've been thinking that for a while. And it's not the first time
they changed things on us.


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