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From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: "0.0" version string in URLs
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In response to "0.0" version string in URLs  (Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> wrote:
I happened to be googling for "postgresql 9.4 release notes", and the
first result for me was this link:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/0.0/static/index.html

which apparently works and appears to have the same content as this
URL with a more reasonable version identifier:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/index.html

IMO it's not great that we're propagating "0.0" version-string-URLs,
apparently in some way that Google happily picks up on. Is there a
prominent link to a /0.0/ URL somewhere in the postgresql.org space,
or are we redirecting some pages to a version 0.0?

Wow, I wonder how they got to that one. We certainly *shouldn't* be linking to that anywhere, but 0.0 is the internal one that's used for "devel" docs. But they should always be accessed as /devel/.

I've pushed a fix that gives a 404 on /0.0/. If there is actually a link pointing there, someone will tell us soon :)


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