Re: Where to point CommitFestOpen? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: Where to point CommitFestOpen?
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.64.0811022353040.23921@westnet.com
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In response to Re: Where to point CommitFestOpen?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Where to point CommitFestOpen?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:
>> Note that if you rename a page you also need to update any redirects
>> which point to it.
>
> The directions on the "move" tab imply that this is taken care of
> automatically?

What you get when you move something is redirect page that translates the 
old name into the new one.  But if you were already targeting that page 
with a redirect, it would take a double redirect to find the new location, 
and that doesn't work.  See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Double_redirects for more details.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD


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