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From Stephen Frost
Subject pgsql: Add a docs section for obsoleted and renamed functions and setti
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Msg-id E1lRhOM-0003gp-Cz@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Add a docs section for obsoleted and renamed functions and settings

The new appendix groups information on renamed or removed settings,
commands, etc into an out-of-the-way part of the docs.

The original id elements are retained in each subsection to ensure that
the same filenames are produced for HTML docs. This prevents /current/
links on the web from breaking, and allows users of the web docs
to follow links from old version pages to info on the changes in the
new version. Prior to this change, a link to /current/ for renamed
sections like the recovery.conf docs would just 404. Similarly if
someone searched for recovery.conf they would find the pg11 docs,
but there would be no /12/ or /current/ link, so they couldn't easily
find out that it was removed in pg12 or how to adapt.

Index entries are also added so that there's a breadcrumb trail for
users to follow when they know the old name, but not what we changed it
to. So a user who is trying to find out how to set standby_mode in
PostgreSQL 12+, or where pg_resetxlog went, now has more chance of
finding that information.

Craig Ringer and Stephen Frost
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGRY4nzPNOyYQ_1-pWYToUVqQ0ThqP5jdURnJMZPm539fdizOg%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10

Branch
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REL_13_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/89e383b30a94d1fb1ebfd63131433a93bcf47625

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/appendix-obsolete-pgreceivexlog.sgml  | 24 +++++++++
doc/src/sgml/appendix-obsolete-pgresetxlog.sgml    | 24 +++++++++
doc/src/sgml/appendix-obsolete-pgxlogdump.sgml     | 24 +++++++++
.../sgml/appendix-obsolete-recovery-config.sgml    | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++
doc/src/sgml/appendix-obsolete.sgml                | 41 +++++++++++++++
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml                           |  5 +-
doc/src/sgml/filelist.sgml                         |  7 +++
doc/src/sgml/high-availability.sgml                | 16 ++++--
doc/src/sgml/postgres.sgml                         |  1 +
doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_basebackup.sgml                |  5 +-
10 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


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