Re: Dead link in ltree documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Dead link in ltree documentation
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Msg-id CAKFQuwZCvSHaXSmPPVmDhDOm-ACVhwP_Kse=iAZCvCQX8=3hAQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Dead link in ltree documentation  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Dead link in ltree documentation  ("David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>)
Re: Dead link in ltree documentation  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>)
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Wed, Apr  4, 2018 at 03:46:06PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
> The Russian Postgres Company
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:59 PM, PG Doc comments form
> <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> >
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/ltree.html
> > Description:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ltree.html links to
> > www.dmoz.org which now returns a 403, since being closed down in 2017.
> >
> > Maybe it could link to the mirror https://dmoztools.net/ or the wikipedia
> > page instead.
>
> Attached is a small patch.

> --- ltree.sgml.orig   2017-12-20 16:40:26.000000000 +0300
> +++ ltree.sgml        2018-04-04 15:43:01.000000000 +0300
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
>     length of a label path must be less than 65kB, but keeping it under 2kB is
>     preferable.  In practice this is not a major limitation; for example,
>     the longest label path in the DMOZ catalog (<ulink
> -   url="http://www.dmoz.org"></ulink>) is about 240 bytes.
> +   url="http://www.dmoztools.net"></ulink>) is about 271 bytes.
>    </para>
>
>    <para>

Patch applied back through 9.3.  Thanks.

​I'm not seeing the value in providing a link, especially one that we don't control, here.  Futhermore, we could probably drop the whole "In practice..." sentence.  But if not at least put a period after "limitation" and drop the example and link.

​David J.

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