The commit 159e3d86292cfec2a2828f9f69ac7a6cb1be242d created some funny
business out of many links to contrib modules. Take a look at this
page:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/log-shipping-alternative.html
It now reads: "See the Section F.31 module for a reference
implementation of this." (where it previously said "the pg_standby
module") There are many other places like that now.
I don't think the toolchain changed in this area, so the whole change
was broken to begin with. The idea is sound, IMO, but the
implementation needs to be reevaluated.