Re: Add docs stub for recovery.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Add docs stub for recovery.conf
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Msg-id 20201113033952.GH4506@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Add docs stub for recovery.conf  (Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Add docs stub for recovery.conf
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 11:31:24AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why the solution I proposed is not acceptable, and why we
> have to invent a different one instead? The website  redirect is good and all,
> but doesn't really solve the problem, and I still don't know what's wrong with
> just fixing the docs...

Because at a certain point the number of _old_ names in the docs
obscures exactly how to operate the current software.  We have tried
keeping stuff around, and we are very bad at removing stuff.

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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