Re: Doc: Rework contrib appendix -- informative titles, tweaked sentences - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: Doc: Rework contrib appendix -- informative titles, tweaked sentences
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Msg-id 20230409185050.GA949159@rfd.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: Doc: Rework contrib appendix -- informative titles, tweaked sentences  ("Karl O. Pinc" <kop@karlpinc.com>)
Responses Re: Doc: Rework contrib appendix -- informative titles, tweaked sentences  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 01:27:05AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:32:05 -0700
> Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 02:42:46PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > > v10-0001-List-trusted-and-obsolete-extensions.patch  
> > 
> > > + <para id="contrib-obsolete">
> > > +   These modules and extensions are obsolete:
> > > +
> > > +   <simplelist type="inline">
> > > +     <member><xref linkend="intagg"/></member>
> > > +     <member><xref linkend="xml2"/></member>
> > > +   </simplelist>
> > > + </para>  
> > 
> > Commit a013738 incorporated this change.  Since xml2 is the only
> > in-tree way to use XSLT from SQL, I think xml2 is not obsolete.  Some
> > individual functions, e.g. xml_valid(), are obsolete.  (There are
> > years-old threats to render the module obsolete, but this has never
> > happened.)
> 
> Your point seems valid but this is above my station.
> I have no idea as to how to best resolve this, or even how to make the
> resolution happen now that the change has been committed.

I'm inclined to just remove <para id="contrib-obsolete">.  While intagg is
indeed obsolete, having a one-entry list seems like undue weight.



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