[DOCS] Re: [HACKERS] Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

2014-02-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2/3/14, 8:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > That's a very fair question. It's a reasonable bet that pretty much > nobody actually looks at the text versions of either HISTORY or > regress_README anymore. It's conceivable that somebody somewhere makes > use of the text version of INSTALL when trying to

Re: [DOCS] Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

2014-02-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2/4/14, 3:28 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > Right. I mean, a lot of the links say things like "Section 26.2" > which obviously makes no sense in a standalone text file. The man pages have the same issue. For example from man postgres: Other possible file layouts are discussed in Section 18.2,

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

2014-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > On 2/3/14, 8:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> That's a very fair question. It's a reasonable bet that pretty much >> nobody actually looks at the text versions of either HISTORY or >> regress_README anymore. It's conceivable that somebody somewhere makes >> use of the text ve

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

2014-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
Gavin Flower writes: > How about adding URL's for the online versions of HISTORY & README's (or > their rough equivalents - perhaps the online version of the latest > 'Appendix E. Release Notes' would be sufficient?) to the INSTALL file? Actually, what I had in mind was to replace the dynamical