Re: A user report of misinterpretation of 'unsupported versions' - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Daniel Farina
Subject Re: A user report of misinterpretation of 'unsupported versions'
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In response to Re: A user report of misinterpretation of 'unsupported versions'  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Daniel Farina <daniel@heroku.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:28 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>>> But I can understand the confusion - do you have a suggestion for how
>>> to write it to make it more obvious what the actual problem is?
>
>> I don't think I communicated the problem right.
>
> Yeah, you did, but we need a concrete suggestion as to how to improve
> the wording.

Yeah. Well, I wanted to make sure I got my point across right before
doing any suggestions.

> I wonder if just adding "in" would help:
>
> This page in other versions: 9.2 / 9.1 / 9.0 / 8.4  |  In unsupported versions: 9.3 / 8.3 / 8.2 / 8.1 / 8.0 / 7.4 /
7.3/ 7.2 / devel 

That seems like a good suggestion to me.  Granted, this kind of user
complaint is pretty rare to catch articulated, so it's hard to do much
other than intuition...but I like it.


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