From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: hofstetter@jomasoft.ch
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Subject: Re: BUG #19404: manpages are missing in 18.x source.tar.gz
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PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> -bash-5.1$ ls -l postgresql-18.2/doc/src/sgml/man1/.
> postgresql-18.2/doc/src/sgml/man1/.: No such file or directory

This is an intentional change in our distribution process in v17
and later: the tarballs are now just images of our git repo,
without any derived files.

> the files are there in 17.x

Not unless you built them locally.  They are certainly not in
my copy of that tarball:

$ tar tvfj postgresql-17.8.tar.bz2 | grep /man
-rw-rw-r-- root/root     23923 2026-02-09 16:51 postgresql-17.8/doc/src/sg=
ml/manage-ag.sgml

			regards, tom lane