Re: Documentation for "PostgreSQL 9"?

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 18:15, Martin Atukunda <matlads(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 23:55, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 00:53 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>>> Why is there documentation for "PostgreSQL 9", here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9/static/index.html
>>>>
>>>> 9.0 also exists, but this came up first in Google.  Isn't this prone to
>>>> create confusion about the version numbering?
>>>
>>> Yes I would think so.
>>
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> Where did you find a link to "9"? It should really only show up as
>> such if there's a link on our site to it somewhere, and I can't find
>> it - and thus cna't remove it...b
>
> I just tried this using google.com
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fdocs%2F9%2Fstatic%2Findex.html&hl=en
>
> sites that link to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9/static/index.html
>
> gives the following:
>
> 1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-wal.html
> 2. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pgresetxlog.html
> 3. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-2-6.html
> 4. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequence.html
>
> The bread crumb links (Home → Documentation → Manuals → PostgreSQL 9)
> seem to be the issue.

Ah, cute. PHP automatically converts "9.0" to "9" when it's entered as
a decimal. I guess that shouldn't be entirely surprising :-) I've
changed it to a string now, and am rebuilding the website mirrors to
get this right. Should be working in a couple of hours (yes, docs
builds are slow)

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