Re: Where is diskchecker.pl ?

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:11:21PM +0200, jg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The PostgreSQK documentation refers to diskchecker.pl on the page http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html
>> But on this page, the given link for diskchecker.pl does not exist anymore.
>> After some unsuccessfull queries on Google to find the missing file,
>> I wonder if one of you have a lin or a copy of this file.
>
> Script URL is:
>
> https://gist.github.com/3172656
>
> Documentation updated.

Why are we putting such a link directly in the documentation, where
it's really hard to change it if we have to, since it's out in many
versions already? Shouldn't we be working to remove such dependencies
rather than add more of them?

Also, are we sure github gist urls are permanent? I know the temporary
gists aren't, but I guess maybe the logged-in ones are?

For longer terms, perhaps we should set up an URL forwarder or
something that the docs can link through in the cases where we really
need this, so we can more easily update the URLs?
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