On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote: > Do people really search for something with a specific version > specified? I've never done that, because I rarely particularly need > to, and because I think that it wouldn't work.
Fwiw when I searched for Oracle docs I found including version numbers *did* reliably produce better results. In that case the problem is that there are too many blogs and support pages that try to help and you have to include extra terms to filter out just the most helpful ones. Including terms like version numbers really helps winnow out the chaff of pages that are for older or newer versions or aren't technical enough to specify what version they're for.
I think a more realistic scenario to consider is someone running an older release and searching for something like "ssl_renegotiation_limit" or "wal_level hot_standby" would find nothing at all rather than documentation for a version that may be what they're actually running. Now.... the fact that ssl_renogitation_limit is the *only* such example could find more recent than 9.2 may mean it's rare enough that it's not much of a concern
Yeah, that's a bigger issue - there'd be no way at all to get hits on that in google then, would there? And I think cutting that argument off at supported releases (9.2) is too soon - people migrating *off* earlier versions for example, would still be interested in searching for them.
Wouldn't the same thing apply to say checkpoint_segments, btw? Surely there must be more than just those?