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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Dead link in ltree documentation
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 13:02:33 -0700
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr  4, 2018 at 03:46:06PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> > Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
> > The Russian Postgres Company
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:59 PM, PG Doc comments form
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> > >
> > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/ltree.html
> > > Description:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ltree.html links to
> > > www.dmoz.org which now returns a 403, since being closed down in 2017.
> > >
> > > Maybe it could link to the mirror https://dmoztools.net/ or the
> wikipedia
> > > page instead.
> >
> > Attached is a small patch.
>
> > --- ltree.sgml.orig   2017-12-20 16:40:26.000000000 +0300
> > +++ ltree.sgml        2018-04-04 15:43:01.000000000 +0300
> > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
> >     length of a label path must be less than 65kB, but keeping it under
> 2kB is
> >     preferable.  In practice this is not a major limitation; for example,
> >     the longest label path in the DMOZ catalog (<ulink
> > -   url="http://www.dmoz.org"></ulink;) is about 240 bytes.
> > +   url="http://www.dmoztools.net"></ulink;) is about 271 bytes.
> >    </para>
> >
> >    <para>
>
> Patch applied back through 9.3.  Thanks.
>

​I'm not seeing the value in providing a link, especially one that we don't
control, here.  Futhermore, we could probably drop the whole "In
practice..." sentence.  But if not at least put a period after "limitation"
and drop the example and link.

​David J.

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