On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Kevin Grittner <kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote: > [Forwarding to the -hackers list. Please respond there.] > > Craig Ringer <ring...@ringerc.id.au> wrote: >> On 08/09/2012 04:24 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: >>> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Number_Of_Database_Connections >>> >> Can we please please PLEASE link to that as a comment above >> max_connections? >> >> Last time this came up nobody was happy with wording of a comment >> so nothing got done. It's a real usability wart - causing >> real-world performance and reliability problems - that people >> unwittingly raise max_connections to absurd levels because they >> get no warnings, hints or guidance of any sort. > > I see that we currently have five links to wiki.postgresql.org in > release notes and four more in the rest of the docs. Are people OK > with adding this link to the docs on max_connections? (Feel free to > improve it before answering if you have qualms about the specifics > on that page.)
I think we should do that in the cases where the text is "volatile", such as when it refers to external products or things that are likely to change. I think this one qualifies reasonably well. However, I wonder if we should somehow try to keep track of those that *are* linked from the documentation. I assume you just grep:ed this time, or something like that? Perhaps we should assign all such pages a specific category or so on the wiki, so we can police them a bit extra hard? -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
