Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The directions on the "move" tab imply that this is taken care of
>> automatically?
> What you get when you move something is redirect page that translates the
> old name into the new one. But if you were already targeting that page
> with a redirect, it would take a double redirect to find the new location,
> and that doesn't work. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Double_redirects for more details.
Somehow, "prevent infinite loops" doesn't seem like justification for
"refuse to deal with a situation that the software creates automatically".
They ought to be willing to burrow more than one level ... see any Unix
kernel's treatment of symlinks for behavior that has actually stood the
test of usability over time.
regards, tom lane