broken index references

[Josh Kupershmidt]

If you search through recent 9.2 or 9.3dev PDFs for the string "??"
you should find ten occurrences. Other than the first instance in
Chapter 9, the other nine are all in the index, and indicate an
unknown reference to some index entry. For example, you can see in the
current 9.2-A4 PDF:

"""
deadlock, 349
timeout during, ??
...

fsync configuration parameter, ??
...

full_page_writes configuration parameter,
??
"""

AFAICT tex is getting confused by <indexterm> entries appearing before
<term>. Or at least, switching the order seems to fix the problem.
Patch attached.

Josh

[Tom Lane]

Post by Josh Kupershmidt
If you search through recent 9.2 or 9.3dev PDFs for the string "??"
you should find ten occurrences. Other than the first instance in
Chapter 9, the other nine are all in the index, and indicate an
unknown reference to some index entry. ...
AFAICT tex is getting confused by <indexterm> entries appearing before
<term>. Or at least, switching the order seems to fix the problem.
Patch attached.

Great catch, patch applied.

A different PDF-output problem that I've been noticing for awhile is that
certain intra-page links don't work. The only clue I've found about it
is the warnings in the TeX log, for instance:

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{SQL-CREATETABLE-COMPATIBILITY-TITLE} has been refer
enced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{SQL-CREATEINDEX-STORAGE-PARAMETERS-TITLE} has been
referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{SQL-CREATETABLE-STORAGE-PARAMETERS-TITLE} has been
referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{SQL-CREATEINDEX-CONCURRENTLY-TITLE} has been refere
nced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{SQL-GROUPBY-TITLE} has been referenced but does not
exist, replaced by a fixed one

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{SQL-WHERE-TITLE} has been referenced but does not e
xist, replaced by a fixed one

pdfTeX warning (dest): name{SQL-FROM-TITLE} has been referenced but does not ex
ist, replaced by a fixed one

If you look at the relevant intrapage links on these reference pages,
you find that they look right (the text does correspond to the
referenced title item), but the link actually goes to page 1 of the PDF.
(This is with the Fedora 16 PDF toolchain.) Any idea what's causing that?

regards, tom lane

[Josh Kupershmidt]

Post by Tom Lane
A different PDF-output problem that I've been noticing for awhile is that
certain intra-page links don't work. The only clue I've found about it

I could have overlooked a working example.. but as far as I've seen,
every link of the form:

<xref linkend="..." endterm="...">

just goes to Page 1 in the PDFs. I checked against a recent 9.2-A4.pdf
from the website and my own 9.3-A4.pdf built on Debian; the psql page
(psql-ref.sgml) has a number of such links. The links seem to work OK
in the HTML version, though.

Josh