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* Suggestion: Change link in tutorial to go to chapter 16 for binary installation
@ 2025-07-22 23:39 PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
2025-07-23 10:02 ` Re: Suggestion: Change link in tutorial to go to chapter 16 for binary installation Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
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From: PG Doc comments form @ 2025-07-22 23:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; +Cc: hunter@cowing.net
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/tutorial-install.html
Description:
On the “Installation” page of the PostgreSQL 16 tutorial
([https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/tutorial-install.html](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/tutorial-install.html)),
I expected the recommended instructions to point to Chapter 16 (installing
from binaries) rather than Chapter 17 (installing from source). After all,
Chapter 16 even notes that “building from source (see Chapter 17) is only
recommended for people developing PostgreSQL or extensions.”
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* Re: Suggestion: Change link in tutorial to go to chapter 16 for binary installation
2025-07-22 23:39 Suggestion: Change link in tutorial to go to chapter 16 for binary installation PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
@ 2025-07-23 10:02 ` Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
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From: Laurenz Albe @ 2025-07-23 10:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: hunter@cowing.net; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 23:39 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> On the “Installation” page of the PostgreSQL 16 tutorial
> ([https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/tutorial-install.html](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/tutorial-install.html)),
> I expected the recommended instructions to point to Chapter 16 (installing
> from binaries) rather than Chapter 17 (installing from source). After all,
> Chapter 16 even notes that “building from source (see Chapter 17) is only
> recommended for people developing PostgreSQL or extensions.”
Very true. However, the binary distributions that I am aware of don't
ship with tutorial binaries, so you have to build it from source.
I think that it would make sense to have a binary "tutorial" package,
but that is for the packager lists rather than for the bugs list.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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