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From: Jimmy Angelakos <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcos Pegoraro <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Diff of this page with other version
Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:28:31 +0000
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On 02/03/2024 17:33, Tom Lane wrote:

> Erik Wienhold <[email protected]> writes: 
> 
>> I think you underestimate the effort because the changes are not always
>> as clear (adding one line) as for copy.sgml as you've shown above.  For
>> example, if I check create_table.sgml between v15 and v16, I see that
>> the addition of STORAGE modified an existing line.  So that regex has to
>> match and wrap just the relevant substring.  When new storage modes are
>> added we end up with nested version info in order to compare vXX with
>> pre v16:
> 
> Yeah.  I think the chances of getting people to do this in the .sgml
> files are precisely zero.  What might have a chance of happening is
> to provide a way on the website of running htmldiff or similar tool
> over two versions of a doc page on-the-fly and show the results.
> 
> regards, tom lane

I agree with Tom, I think automation of this process is the way to go
here. 

Best regards,
Jimmy

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