[HACKERS] Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

2014-02-05 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:43 PM, Noah Misch wrote: >> Right. I mean, a lot of the links say things like "Section 26.2" >> which obviously makes no sense in a standalone text file. > > For s normally displayed that way, text output could emit a URL, either > inline or in the form of a footnote. F

[HACKERS] Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

2014-02-04 Thread Noah Misch
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:28:45PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Noah Misch writes: > >>> Robert Haas writes: > I wonder if these standalone things are really worthwhile. > > > >> I wonder how difficult it would be to make sufficient link da

[HACKERS] Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

2014-02-04 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Noah Misch writes: >>> Robert Haas writes: I wonder if these standalone things are really worthwhile. > >> I wonder how difficult it would be to make sufficient link data available >> when >> building the standalone files. There would be n

[HACKERS] Re: Viability of text HISTORY/INSTALL/regression README files (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Document a few more regression test hazards.)

2014-02-03 Thread Noah Misch
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:48:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> guaibasaurus doesn't like this patch: you need to be more careful > >> about links, because the regression instructions are supposed to > >> compile as a standa