Re: old warning in docs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: old warning in docs
Date
Msg-id 20131007154327.GA18646@fetter.org
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In response to old warning in docs  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@pgexperts.com>)
Responses Re: old warning in docs  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 07:51:44AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> Given that we have not supported releases older than 8.3 for quite a
> while, do we need to keep this in extend.sgml any longer?
> 
>   <caution>
>     <para>
>      Changing <varname>PG_CONFIG</varname> only works when building
>      against <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 8.3 or later.
>      With older releases it does not work to set it to anything except
>      <literal>pg_config</>; you must alter your <varname>PATH</>
>      to select the installation to build against.
>     </para>
>    </caution>

I say "bin it."  That reminds me.  There are probably a lot of places
in the docs that refer to versions of PostgreSQL a good bit older than
8.3.  Will grep and patch as I get the time.

Cheers,
David.
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