Re: psql show URL with help

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 11:44:07AM -0800, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:41 PM Peter Eisentraut <
> peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > On 2019-03-04 17:55, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > > If the first thing we do when we move from devel to some other state
> > > (beta, RC, etc.) is to publish the docs under the major version
> > > number, then maybe this test should be more along the lines of
> > looking
> > > for anything that's neither devel nor a number, extract the number,
> > > and use that.
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, alpha versions do go under the numeric URL. Whether we load the
> > > docs at that time or not we can just choose -- but there is no reason
> > > not to. So yeah, that sounds like it would work better.
> >
> > Can you put your proposal in the form of some logical pseudocode? I
> > don't understand the free-form description.
> >
>
> Hah, sorry. It's actually Davids proposal, but something like:
>
> if (psql_version_is_numeric)
> return /docs/psql_version/
> else if (psql_version ends with 'devel')
> return /docs/devel/
> else
> return /docs/{psql_version but with text stripped}/
>
> So that e.g. 12beta would return "12", as would 12rc or 12alpha. But
> 12devel would return "devel".

That's exactly what I had in mind :)

Best,
David.
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