Re: Missing directory is mentioned on page https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/libpq-exec.html.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 01:32:49PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:54:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The removal only happened in HEAD, so I'm unclear on why you back-patched
> >> this doc change?
> 
> > Uh, at the top of all my branches, I typed:
> >     ls */src/tools/thread
> > and saw no hits in _any_ of the branches.
> 
> Presumably this text is a leftover from before 8.2:
> 
>   Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
>   Branch: master Release: REL8_2_BR [9e66c3e6f] 2006-02-04 01:00:02 +0000
> 
>     Move thread_test directory from /tools to /test so source-only tarballs
>     have the directory for the configure test.
> 
> > I now see that the problem
> > wasn't that /src/_tools_/thread was removed but that the docs referenced
> > it instead of src/_test_/thread.  However, it doesn't compile because of
> > the pg_printf reference.  I am thinking removing the paragraph in the
> > back branches was the right thing to do all along.  Agreed?
> 
> It probably worked okay on most platforms before v12 (96bf88d52).
> We could put back the text and fix where it pointed to, but on the
> other hand I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.  Obviously nobody
> has paid any attention to that para in a long time.

I think you are right that removal is appropriate.

> >> But thanks for finding the reference; I'd only searched for test/thread,
> >> not tools/thread.  Looks like src/template/netbsd has an old reference
> >> too.
> 
> > Remove that too?
> 
> Yeah, I think we could just nuke that line.

Removed.

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