Re: Fwd: Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Broken link in PG docs

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:35, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Robert Treat wrote:
> > Can someone apply Jim's patch at least to HEAD and REL8_2_STABLE?  We
> > recently got a report of a broken link on the website due to this; seems
> > it is still broken...
>
> OK, we were aware that the URL was bad, but were trying to avoid
> pointing to the cached version.  You will see that comment in the old
> SGML.
>
> What I did was to point to the Citeseer page, but not into the cached
> PDF.  I think the text saying "cached version" will make it clear people
> have to click to see the paper, and we aren't deep linking into
> Citeseer, which I think could be a problem, and the cached URL is one of
> the longest I have ever seen.
>

As an alternative, if we could get a copy of the paper and permission from the
authors, we could host it on postgresql.org.

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Robert Treat
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