Re: pg_replication_slots page links

On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org
> >
> > wrote:
> >>> Because the name of the page has changed. Not much to do about that at
> >>> this point.
>
> > Is this going to affect a single page, pg_replication_slots, or is this
> a
> > systematic change that's going to be hitting a whole class of pages?
>
> I think this can be blamed on a9ba6195f, which I only back-patched as
> far as 9.5 --- guess I didn't realize that the bogus section name
> existed further back. So I think the answer to your direct question
> is "a single page", but maybe we should instead proceed by bringing 9.4
> into line with the later branches and then updating the docs?
>

Adding the mapping to the website was a single row in a db table, and is
already done, so it wasn't a lot of work. But there might be other reasons
to change it of course, for consistency.

Of course, actually *changing* it in 9.4 now will break any external links
pointing to it. Links within our own documentation will pick it up and
change accordingly, but anything that's linking from the outside will
generate 404s.

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