Re: links to 12 release notes broken after branching

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> Yes, but before the release being done we can't hand that out? So I
> don't think that's sufficient.  Can't we have a rule that redirects to
> devel/release-NN.html to /NN/release-NN.html upon a 404?

That seems like it'd cause everlasting confusion about which
branch links were really meant to point at.

I'd rather see us instantiate a new release branch under
www.postgresql.org/docs/ as soon as there's a good reason to
point to it, like around beta1, or maybe when we fork the
branch in git.

            regards, tom lane