Re: psql show URL with help

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 06:28:09PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> As mentioned on
>
> https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/looking-at-mysql-8-with-postgresql-goggles-on/
>
> how about this:
>
> => \h analyze
> Command: ANALYZE
> Description: collect statistics about a database
> Syntax:
> ANALYZE [ ( option [, ...] ) ] [ table_and_columns [, ...] ]
> ANALYZE [ VERBOSE ] [ table_and_columns [, ...] ]
>
> where option can be one of:
>
> VERBOSE
> SKIP_LOCKED
>
> and table_and_columns is:
>
> table_name [ ( column_name [, ...] ) ]
>
> URL: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-analyze.html
> ^^^^
>
> (Won't actually work because the web site isn't serving "12" URLs yet,
> but that's something that could probably be sorted out.)

Since there's no longer any mystery as to what the upcoming major
version of PostgreSQL will be, it should be pretty straightforward to
redirect integers > max(released version) to the devel docs.

This could cause some confusion because we branch long (feature- and
bug-wise) before we do the release, and a checkout from immediately
after branching will be *very* different from one just before the
release. The way I've come up with to clear this up is *way* too
expensive: lazily create doc builds for each SHA1 requested. Pointing
people at the latest devel docs is less confusing than pointing them
at nothing or at the previous version, those being, as far as I can
tell, the viable alternatives.

Best,
David.
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