Re: Broken link in pgcrypto documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Daniel Gustafsson
Subject Re: Broken link in pgcrypto documentation
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In response to Re: Broken link in pgcrypto documentation  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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> On 13 Feb 2024, at 21:24, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 9:08 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
>>> On 13 Feb 2024, at 20:42, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>> I'm a little dubious about the "Technical References" list right below
>>>> it, too.  The RFC references are probably useful and stable, and maybe
>>>> the wikipedia ref is OK, but I have little faith in either the
>>>> stability or the long-term relevance of the other two links.
>>
>>> Not even those are all that stable, while the RFCs' in question haven't been
>>> replaced they have all been updated with new RFC's which we don't link to.  I
>>> think we are better off removing them as well and leaving reading up on
>>> security/crypto subject an exercise for the reader.
>>
>> Good point.  Nuking both lists works for me.
>
> +1.

Alright, sounds good.  I'll go ahead with that in the morning then, backpatched
all the way down since the links are equally outdated everywhere.

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Daniel Gustafsson




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