Re: Stale external URL in doc?

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> > As a short term fix we should either a) remove these links completely or
> b)
> > link to archived copies of the pages on archive.org; or c) find a more
> > appropriate pages to link to. A quick search didn't turn up anything I
> would
> > prefer for (c), and I'm not sure what he legality of linking to a cached
> copy
> > is, so I would advocate for (a).
>
> +1. It should have been obvious just from the spelling of this URL that
> it wasn't intended to be a long term stable location. Digging in the
> git history shows we've already updated it twice, and I wonder how many
> changes there were that we didn't notice.
>
> Just reverting bbd3bdba3 seems appropriate to me.
>

+1.

If we want to keep a set of such links, probably the wiki is a better place
as more people can easily fix them there.

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