Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Postgres 10 manual breaks links with anchors - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Postgres 10 manual breaks links with anchors
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Msg-id 29891.1509110947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Postgres 10 manual breaks links with anchors  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 10/26/17 16:10, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In view of commit 1ff01b390, aren't we more or less locked into
>> lower-case anchors going forward?

> The details are more complicated. ...

Ah.  I'd imagined that we were using the original case for the anchors,
rather than smashing them to upper (or lower) case.

> So the options are simply
> 1) Use the patch and keep indefinitely, keeping anchors compatible back
> to forever and forward indefinitely.
> 2) Don't use the patch, breaking anchors from <=9.6, but keeping them
> compatible going forward.
>
> Considering how small the patch is compared to some other customizations
> we carry, #1 seems reasonable to me.

+1
        regards, tom lane


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