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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]>
Cc: Melanie Plageman <[email protected]>
Cc: Pg Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Moving the vacuum GUCs' docs out of the Client Connection Defaults section
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:14:36 -0500
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Nathan Bossart <[email protected]> writes:
> I haven't reviewed the patch in depth, but I think it's worth considering
> whether this change will break any links that work in one version but break
> if you change the version number.  I believe appendix-obsolete.sgml is
> designed to help with that a bit, but I've had mixed results when I've
> tried to use it.  Of course, it's also possible that we don't care too
> much...

Yeah, this change:

-   <sect1 id="runtime-config-autovacuum">
+   <sect1 id="runtime-config-vacuum">

will change the doc page's URL and thus break any external links or
bookmarks for the whole page or anything on it.  That's not the
end of the world, but it's slightly annoying.  appendix-obsolete.sgml
seems to be designed for slightly more heavyweight changes, where
it's worth having an intermediate page that explains what changed.
Here I think we'd just like a redirect.

I might be wrong, but I had the idea that our docs website has a
capability to provide such redirects.  You'd probably need to ask
about that on the pgsql-www list, unless somebody who knows the
answer notices this thread.

			regards, tom lane

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