Re: commit_baseurl is broken in postgres.sgml

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
To: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: commit_baseurl is broken in postgres.sgml
Date: 2025-10-13 07:18:34
Message-ID: B1640171-32D4-4D85-B84A-3A036D41A41D@yesql.se
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> On 13 Oct 2025, at 07:34, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi Hacker,
>
> I just noticed $SUBJECT:
>
> In doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml, line 12:
> ```
> <!ENTITY commit_baseurl "https://postgr.es/c/">
> ```
>
> https://postgr.es/c/ is resolved to https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/, but the URL now returns 404.
>
> Looks like Bruce fixed the URL 13 months ago, but it’s broken again. I am not sure if https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff is the correct URL,

The baseurl needs a commit id to work, like https://postgr.es/m/<commit_id>.
If you look at the links to commits in the release notes you will see it
working.

> and anyway I don’t know how to generate a short URL.

For commits, https://postgr.es/m/<commit_id> and for emails on any archived
list it's https://postgr.es/m/<message_id>.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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