Re: old warning in docs

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)pgexperts(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: old warning in docs
Date: 2013-10-07 15:43:27
Message-ID: 20131007154327.GA18646@fetter.org
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 07:51:44AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> Given that we have not supported releases older than 8.3 for quite a
> while, do we need to keep this in extend.sgml any longer?
>
> <caution>
> <para>
> Changing <varname>PG_CONFIG</varname> only works when building
> against <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 8.3 or later.
> With older releases it does not work to set it to anything except
> <literal>pg_config</>; you must alter your <varname>PATH</>
> to select the installation to build against.
> </para>
> </caution>

I say "bin it." That reminds me. There are probably a lot of places
in the docs that refer to versions of PostgreSQL a good bit older than
8.3. Will grep and patch as I get the time.

Cheers,
David.
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