Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 10 manual breaks links with anchors

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 10 manual breaks links with anchors
Date: 2017-10-27 13:29:07
Message-ID: 29891.1509110947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 10/26/17 16:10, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In view of commit 1ff01b390, aren't we more or less locked into
>> lower-case anchors going forward?

> The details are more complicated. ...

Ah. I'd imagined that we were using the original case for the anchors,
rather than smashing them to upper (or lower) case.

> So the options are simply
> 1) Use the patch and keep indefinitely, keeping anchors compatible back
> to forever and forward indefinitely.
> 2) Don't use the patch, breaking anchors from <=9.6, but keeping them
> compatible going forward.
>
> Considering how small the patch is compared to some other customizations
> we carry, #1 seems reasonable to me.

+1

regards, tom lane

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