Re: Documentation: references to old versions

Hi

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

> While reading some documentation, I noticed that we have references to
> past releases. For example,
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/xfunc-c.html mentions "A
> magic block is required as of PostgreSQL 8.2". Sure, this is true even
> as of 9.2 or even 9.3. There are a few more such references that I
> could spot with a simple grep in the doc/src/sgml directory. I wonder
> if this is worth fixing. I don't know sgml enough, but if it supports
> some sort of a meta-tag, then it might help to replace specific
> version references with something like <CURRENT_MAJOR_RELEASE> so that
> the current major version gets substituted when docs for that release
> are built.
>

The phrasing "as of 8.2" basically means "from 8.2 onwards". Changing the
version there would make the text incorrect.

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