Re: Broken NewbieDoc Docbook Guide link

On 2025-Aug-13, PG Doc comments form wrote:

> At
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/docguide-docbook.html
>
> the NewbieDoc Docbook Guide link is to
>
> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/metadoc/docbook-guide.html
>
> which results in an HTTP 404.
>
> I guess the project page is
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/newbiedoc/
>
> but it doesn't actually display the guide, so I guess one would have to
> download and build it in order to read it? Also, the project was last
> updated over ten years ago (2013-04-15). Maybe the reference to this guide
> should just be removed?

Yeah, it was removed some time ago actually, per this discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/aFpXSCPpQkoFk_mb%40paquier.xyz
The updated docs coincidentally become visible later today, with the
release of 17.6 and friends. It's already visible in the development
docs for pg19: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/docguide-docbook.html

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