Linking to "current" docs

Started by Ian Barwickalmost 23 years ago3 messages
#1Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net

With the "old" idocs it was possible to create links to the "current"
version of individual documentation pages without having to
provide a Postgres version number, e.g.:

http://www.PostgreSQL.org/idocs/index.php?kernel-resources.html

which would remain constant over longer periods of time. Providing
no major restructuring of the docs takes place, this is a useful
low-maintenance way of linking to the docs without worrying
too much about version changes and seems to be used in a
variety of places.

With the new documentation at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/
(which is BTW very nice) this approach doesn't appear to work :-(.

Would it be possible to modify the new docs to provide similar
functionality? E.g. something like

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=current&idoc=0&file=sql-createtable.html

If neccessary I can provide time to do this (though I have no idea
of what would be involved ;-).

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net

#2Dave Page
dpage@vale-housing.co.uk
In reply to: Ian Barwick (#1)
Re: Linking to "current" docs

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Barwick [mailto:barwick@gmx.net]
Sent: 23 February 2003 10:56
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: [HACKERS] Linking to "current" docs

Would it be possible to modify the new docs to provide
similar functionality? E.g. something like

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=current&idoc=0&file=sql-
createtable.html

Done.

Regards, Dave.

#3Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net
In reply to: Dave Page (#2)
Re: [HACKERS] Linking to "current" docs

On Sunday 23 February 2003 20:52, Dave Page wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Barwick [mailto:barwick@gmx.net]

Would it be possible to modify the new docs to provide
similar functionality? E.g. something like

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=current&idoc=0&file=sql-
createtable.html

Done.

Thanks! :-)

Ian Barwick
barwick@gmx.net