Re: Using more tha one index per table

On Jul 21, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Greg Smith wrote:

> Steve Atkins wrote:
>> If http://postgresql.org/docs/9.0/* were to 302 redirect to http://postgresql.org/docs/current/* while 9.0 is the current release (and similarly for 9.1 and so on) I suspect we'd find many more links to current and fewer links to specific versions after a year or two.
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> True, but this would leave people with no way to bookmark a permanent link to whatever is the current version, which will represent a regression for how some people want the site to work.

Well, they'd still be able to link to the specific version with ../9.0/.. and have that link to the version 9.0 docs forever, just not as easily as a copy/paste. That's the whole point, though, to make the wanted behaviour easier than the unwanted.

> Also, this and the idea to add a "this is an old version" note to each old page will end up increasing work for the already overloaded web team managing the site. Neither are unreasonable ideas, there's just some subtle bits to making either happen that would need to be worked out, and I don't know who would have time to work through everything involved.

Yup. I'm not convinced it's a great idea either - but it's about the only thing that'd get people to link to ../current/.. by default.

Cheers,
Steve