Re: Problem building 9.0 Beta 3 US PDF file

Tom Lane wrote:
> I find that removing the AIX-fixlevels table (and the two references to
> it) from installation.sgml makes the postgres-US.pdf build go through on
> my F-13 box. This is pretty weird, since there's nothing obviously
> wrong with that table; and if there were something wrong with it, why
> doesn't it bother the postgres-A4.pdf build? Seems like we must be
> looking at a strange toolchain bug.
>
> Now, ordinarily I wouldn't suggest removing information from the manual,
> but I'm not sure that that table is worth fighting the toolchain for.
> It was added here
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2009-06/msg00197.php
> on the basis of Laurenz Albe's suggestion here
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-06/msg00884.php
> but I don't know how carefully that was researched. I'm tempted to
> propose going back to the "use the latest fixpack" wording that was
> there before.
>
> Comments? Can anyone else reproduce the behavior I'm seeing?

I created the table based on known AIX bugs that affect getaddrinfo,
and it's more than random numbers.

Maybe the problem would go away if the information were not in a table,
but in some other format, say, an unordered list.

But I also see no big problem with returning to "use the latest fixpack".
It is certainly a safe wording, although it will urge people to undergo
the painful procedure of an upgrade even if that is unnecessary.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe