Thread: BUG #4970: Broken link in manual

BUG #4970: Broken link in manual

From
"Rob Wultsh"
Date:
The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      4970
Logged by:          Rob Wultsh
Email address:      wultsch@gmail.com
PostgreSQL version: 8.4
Operating system:   N/A
Description:        Broken link in manual
Details:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/geqo-biblio.html links to "The
Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation"
(http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.de.uu.net/EC/clife/www/location.htm)
which as of 8/4/2009 responds with at 404 page.

Re: BUG #4970: Broken link in manual

From
Robert Haas
Date:
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Rob Wultsh<wultsch@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The following bug has been logged online:
>
> Bug reference:      4970
> Logged by:          Rob Wultsh
> Email address:      wultsch@gmail.com
> PostgreSQL version: 8.4
> Operating system:   N/A
> Description:        Broken link in manual
> Details:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/geqo-biblio.html links to "The
> Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation"
> (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.de.uu.net/EC/clife/www/location.htm)
> which as of 8/4/2009 responds with at 404 page.

A quick Google search finds what appears to be that document here:

http://www.aip.de/~ast/EvolCompFAQ/

Trivial patch attached, for the the benefit of any friendly committers
in the area.  Should probably be backpatched also.

...Robert

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Re: BUG #4970: Broken link in manual

From
Alvaro Herrera
Date:
Robert Haas escribió:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Rob Wultsh<wultsch@gmail.com> wrote:

> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/geqo-biblio.html links to "The
> > Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation"
> > (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.de.uu.net/EC/clife/www/location.htm)
> > which as of 8/4/2009 responds with at 404 page.
>
> A quick Google search finds what appears to be that document here:
>
> http://www.aip.de/~ast/EvolCompFAQ/
>
> Trivial patch attached, for the the benefit of any friendly committers
> in the area.  Should probably be backpatched also.

This was the third report, so I guess something needed to be done.

I backpatched it to 8.4, as I thought it unnecessary to backpatch any
further back.

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