Re: Stale external URL in doc?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota(dot)ntt(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Stale external URL in doc?
Date: 2020-07-20 19:39:50
Message-ID: 20200720193950.GA1361@momjian.us
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 09:51:51AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> > As a short term fix we should either a) remove these links completely or b)
> > link to archived copies of the pages on archive.org; or c) find a more
> > appropriate pages to link to. A quick search didn't turn up anything I would
> > prefer for (c), and I'm not sure what he legality of linking to a cached copy
> > is, so I would advocate for (a).
>
> +1. It should have been obvious just from the spelling of this URL that
> it wasn't intended to be a long term stable location. Digging in the
> git history shows we've already updated it twice, and I wonder how many
> changes there were that we didn't notice.
>
> Just reverting bbd3bdba3 seems appropriate to me.

Yes, I was keeping those URLs specifically to document intermediate
certificate usage, but now that we have documentation of how to set up
intermediates, we don't need it anymore.

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