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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: Maciek Sakrejda <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Getting Started section
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:51:11 -0500
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Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Agreed, but I should think that properly packaged versions of Postgres
>> will come with some package-specific instructions.  Is that missing
>> in Debian's version, or out of date, or did he just not read it?

> It's definitely there for debian - it's in
> /usr/share/doc/postgresql-common/README.Debian.gz

> The bigger question is, is it worth actually more or less importing the
> contents of that into our main documentation.

I'm definitely -1 on that; there are too many distinct packagings and they
change asynchronously to our releases.  As a concrete example, the docs
for Red Hat's version needed to change when they moved from SysV init
scripts to systemd boot.  Would we want to keep *both* versions of that
in our manual, and explain exactly which RHEL/CentOS/Fedora versions the
different texts applied to?  No thanks ...

			regards, tom lane


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