Re: Doc: Rework contrib appendix -- informative titles, tweaked sentences

From: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>
To: "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)karlpinc(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Doc: Rework contrib appendix -- informative titles, tweaked sentences
Date: 2023-04-09 18:50:50
Message-ID: 20230409185050.GA949159@rfd.leadboat.com
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 01:27:05AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:32:05 -0700
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 02:42:46PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > > v10-0001-List-trusted-and-obsolete-extensions.patch
> >
> > > + <para id="contrib-obsolete">
> > > + These modules and extensions are obsolete:
> > > +
> > > + <simplelist type="inline">
> > > + <member><xref linkend="intagg"/></member>
> > > + <member><xref linkend="xml2"/></member>
> > > + </simplelist>
> > > + </para>
> >
> > Commit a013738 incorporated this change. Since xml2 is the only
> > in-tree way to use XSLT from SQL, I think xml2 is not obsolete. Some
> > individual functions, e.g. xml_valid(), are obsolete. (There are
> > years-old threats to render the module obsolete, but this has never
> > happened.)
>
> Your point seems valid but this is above my station.
> I have no idea as to how to best resolve this, or even how to make the
> resolution happen now that the change has been committed.

I'm inclined to just remove <para id="contrib-obsolete">. While intagg is
indeed obsolete, having a one-entry list seems like undue weight.

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