Re: Where did the Developer docs go?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 16:59, Jonathan S. Katz
<jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 20:53, Jonathan S. Katz
>> <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>>> One thing raised on IRC:
>>>
>>> Going
>>> to http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/sql-createtable.html will
>>> actually redirect just to the index,
>>> i.e. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/
>>>
>>> If all the URLs map 1-1 should we setup a rewrite rule?
>>
>> It can be done. It was not done for two reasons:
>> 1) then people will never update their bookmarks ;)
>
> Unfortunately neither will Google or the other search engines, or blog posts linking to a feature in the development docs. (i.e. search "site:http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs" to see indexed pages) - from the user experience side that would be a bit frustrating.
>
> Granted it's not like it's the stable docs where we do need that permanence, but I do think it's wise to make it easy for new users to find information, even if it means a few people do not update their bookmarks.

Ok, I've added a redirect for this. Hopefully it is correct...

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