Re: pgsql-server/ oc/src/sgml/Tag: oc/src/sgml/REL ...

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Neil Conway wrote:
>> Hmm... I'm not sure if it's worth bothering about, and it makes the
>> lives of people tracking 7_3_STABLE more difficult, but if you think
>> it's worth doing, that's good enough for me.

> I am not sure what I think.  The specific case was that there was a fix
> where we said .pgaccess rather than .pgpass in the docs.  The fix went
> into HEAD but not 7.3.X, and someone complained about the bug.  Peter
> stated that we _do_ build the 7.3.X docs regularly, rather than just at
> major release time, which was the old system, so I started backpatching
> doc _fixes_.

The .pgpass thing was a clear bug in the docs --- not an improvement
or clarification, but a flat-out error.  As such it needed to be
back-patched.  I'm less than excited about back-patching small
improvements.

            regards, tom lane