8.3 doc issue

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#1Ray Stell
stellr@cns.vt.edu

This is probably the wrong place to mention this, but idunno:

I did a search in the docs of pg_standby and was presented this link:

Based on your search term, we recommend the following links:

* http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/

but that link gives a 404:

Not Found
The requested URL /cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/ was not found on this server.

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Ray Stell (#1)
Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue

Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes:

This is probably the wrong place to mention this, but idunno:

Yeah, wrong place, right place is pgsql-www.

I did a search in the docs of pg_standby and was presented this link:

Based on your search term, we recommend the following links:
* http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/
but that link gives a 404:

This has been complained of before. I know that the right place for our
cvsweb is "anoncvs", but the "developer" address used to work and there
are still many links to that in our archives as well as other places.
Can't we get a redirect in there?

regards, tom lane

#3Erik Jones
ejones@engineyard.com
In reply to: Ray Stell (#1)
Re: 8.3 doc issue

On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Ray Stell wrote:

This is probably the wrong place to mention this, but idunno:

I did a search in the docs of pg_standby and was presented this link:

Based on your search term, we recommend the following links:

* http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/

but that link gives a 404:

Not Found
The requested URL /cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/ was not
found on this server.

Wtih the 8.3 release docs for the contrib packages are in the
Additional Supplied Modules section of the manual's appendix:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/pgstandby.html

Erik Jones, Database Administrator
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#4Alvaro Herrera
alvherre@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue

Tom Lane wrote:

Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes:

Based on your search term, we recommend the following links:
* http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/
but that link gives a 404:

This has been complained of before. I know that the right place for our
cvsweb is "anoncvs", but the "developer" address used to work and there
are still many links to that in our archives as well as other places.
Can't we get a redirect in there?

Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think
this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is
upgraded on that server.

#5Alvaro Herrera
alvherre@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Ray Stell (#1)
Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think
this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is
upgraded on that server.

That makes zero sense, but let's deal with the issue vs "yet another"
haphazard guess at the cause ...

Let's just say I'm happy you fixed it, and I hope it won't break again.

#6Alvaro Herrera
alvherre@2ndquadrant.com
In reply to: Ray Stell (#1)
Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue

Magnus Hagander wrote:

The problem itself is twofold. Because the link in the docbot database
should be updated to point to anoncvs and not developer. But that's not
a Marc thing :-) And the old style links (developer.pg.org) should be
made working through the redirect anyway, because there are likely a
number of such links out there that we cannot change.

Yes, for example
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-03/msg00356.php

#7The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Alvaro Herrera (#4)
Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

Tom Lane wrote:

Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes:

Based on your search term, we recommend the following links:
* http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/
but that link gives a 404:

This has been complained of before. I know that the right place for our
cvsweb is "anoncvs", but the "developer" address used to work and there
are still many links to that in our archives as well as other places.
Can't we get a redirect in there?

Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think
this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is
upgraded on that server.

That makes zero sense, but let's deal with the issue vs "yet another"
haphazard guess at the cause ...

The problem appears to be that *at some point*, someone renamed the
cvsweb.cgi script:

-r-xr--r-- 1 root wheel 126590 Sep 25 21:36 cvsweb.cgi.not_used

This was *ages* ago though, so am I bit confused as to how it ever worked
...

i just re-installed it and now the URL works again ... I just made two
changes to the cvsweb.conf file itself so that it matches what is
displayed on anoncvs as well (footer and Diff format) ...

Let me know if there are any other issues / changes that need to be made
...

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#8Dave Page
dpage@pgadmin.org
In reply to: Alvaro Herrera (#5)
Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think
this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is
upgraded on that server.

That makes zero sense, but let's deal with the issue vs "yet another"
haphazard guess at the cause ...

Let's just say I'm happy you fixed it, and I hope it won't break again.

Surely the correct fix is to do an http level permanent redirect (301)
to anoncvs.postgresql.org, rather than maintain both servers.

--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

#9Magnus Hagander
magnus@hagander.net
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#7)
Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

Tom Lane wrote:

Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> writes:

Based on your search term, we recommend the following links:
*
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/contrib/pg_standby/
but that link gives a 404:

This has been complained of before. I know that the right place for our
cvsweb is "anoncvs", but the "developer" address used to work and there
are still many links to that in our archives as well as other places.
Can't we get a redirect in there?

Yes. It has been fixed and broken several times in the past. I think
this is on Marc's court; my guess is that it breaks every time Apache is
upgraded on that server.

That makes zero sense, but let's deal with the issue vs "yet another"
haphazard guess at the cause ...

The problem appears to be that *at some point*, someone renamed the
cvsweb.cgi script:

-r-xr--r-- 1 root wheel 126590 Sep 25 21:36 cvsweb.cgi.not_used

This was *ages* ago though, so am I bit confused as to how it ever
worked ...

That is intentional. It is supposed to be a *redirect* to the new site.

i just re-installed it and now the URL works again ... I just made two
changes to the cvsweb.conf file itself so that it matches what is
displayed on anoncvs as well (footer and Diff format) ...

Let me know if there are any other issues / changes that need to be made

Yeah, please revert that and make it a redirect instead :-)

The problem itself is twofold. Because the link in the docbot database
should be updated to point to anoncvs and not developer. But that's not
a Marc thing :-) And the old style links (developer.pg.org) should be
made working through the redirect anyway, because there are likely a
number of such links out there that we cannot change.

//Magnus

#10The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Dave Page (#8)
Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 doc issue

On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Dave Page wrote:

Surely the correct fix is to do an http level permanent redirect (301)
to anoncvs.postgresql.org, rather than maintain both servers.

Not sure what broke then, as that was what was there before ... and I just
uncommented the Redirect, and it works now too ...

It now has:

# cvsweb service is moved
Redirect /cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/ http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.
cgi/pgsql/
Redirect /cvsweb.cgi http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi

The first deals with some legacy URLs that may be floating around, and the
second catches the normal stuff ...

Tested both from here, and both appear to rediret fine to anoncvs ... let
me know if there is a problem still ...

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