Re: Uh-oh: documentation PDF output no longer builds in HEAD

On 2015-11-09 19:46:37 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Well, after much digging, I've found what seems a workable answer.
> It turns out that the original form of FlowObjectSetup is just
> unbelievably awful [...].
>
> This gets us down to ~135000 strings to build HEAD, and not incidentally,
> the resulting PDF is about half the size it was before. I think I've
> also fixed a number of formerly unexplainable broken hyperlinks in the
> PDF; some are still broken, but they were that way before. (It looks
> like <xref> with endterm doesn't work very well in jadetex; all the
> remaining bad links seem to be associated with uses of that.)

Nice work. On an ugly subject.

> Barring objection I'll commit this tomorrow. I'm inclined to back-patch
> it at least into 9.5, maybe further, because I'm afraid we may be closer
> than we realized to exceeding the strings limit in the back branches too.

+1 for doing this in 9.5+. I think we will probably want this in all
branches at some point. I don't have a strong opinion on whether we want
to let this mature in 9.5 or not.

Greetings,

Andres Freund