diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
index e20cdfc177..b8b0cca775 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #
 #
 # IDENTIFICATION
-#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.51 2002/08/05 19:43:30 petere Exp $
+#    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.52 2002/10/12 16:34:28 petere Exp $
 #
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ vpath %.sgml ./ref
 
 ALLBOOKS = admin developer programmer reference tutorial user
 
-ALLSGML := $(wildcard $(srcdir)/*.sgml $(srcdir)/ref/*.sgml) bookindex.sgml setindex.sgml
+ALLSGML := $(wildcard $(srcdir)/*.sgml $(srcdir)/ref/*.sgml) bookindex.sgml setindex.sgml version.sgml
 
 ifdef DOCBOOKSTYLE
 CATALOG = -c $(DOCBOOKSTYLE)/catalog
@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ setindex.sgml: HTML.index
 	$(COLLATEINDEX) -i 'setindex' -x -o $@ $<
 endif
 
+version.sgml: $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
+	{ \
+	  echo "<!entity version \"$(VERSION)\">"; \
+	  echo "<!entity majorversion \"`expr $(VERSION) : '\([0-9][0-9]*\.[0-9][0-9]*\)'`\">"; \
+	} >$@
+
 
 ##
 ## Print
@@ -190,8 +196,8 @@ INSTALL HISTORY regress_README: % : %.html
 	 echo "| and put it in place of the existing '$@' file.";\
 	 echo "|"
 
-INSTALL.html: standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml
-	$(JADE.text) -V nochunks $+ >$@
+INSTALL.html: standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml version.sgml
+	$(JADE.text) -V nochunks standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml >$@
 
 HISTORY.html: release.sgml
 	( echo '<!doctype appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN">'; \
@@ -233,4 +239,4 @@ clean distclean maintainer-clean:
 # print
 	rm -f *.rtf *.tex-ps *.tex-pdf *.dvi *.aux *.log *.ps *.pdf *.out *.eps *.fot
 # index
-	rm -f HTML.index bookindex.sgml setindex.sgml
+	rm -f HTML.index bookindex.sgml setindex.sgml version.sgml
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/version.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/version.sgml
deleted file mode 100644
index 33ff27cd65..0000000000
--- a/doc/src/sgml/version.sgml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<!--
-Update this file to propagate correct current version numbers to the
-documentation.  In text, use for example &version; to refer to them.
--->
-
-<!entity version "7.3">
-<!entity majorversion "7.3">
diff --git a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
index d804edf4a0..410d3ed561 100644
--- a/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
+++ b/src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 * Version numbers
     configure.in and configure
-    update version and perhaps majorversion in doc/src/sgml/version.sgml
     bump interface version numbers
       o src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc
       o src/include/pg_config.h.win32