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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: nonint@yandex.ru <nonint@yandex.ru>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Tutorial from Chapter 2.1
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 11:21:24 -0400
Message-ID: <2637304.1754839284@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> Well, the main issue is the people who write the documentation and code the
> software only directly support installing it from source code.  Third-party
> packagers take over when it comes to producing binaries.  You would need to
> convince them to change their ways.  This documentation feedback form is
> unlikely to be something they see.

Yeah ... it'd be nice if packagers created a postgresql-tutorial
subpackage with those files, but the heavy lifting would all need
to be done by the packagers, not the core project.  I'm not really
surprised that none of them have done so.  There's not that much
incremental benefit from being able to reproduce the tutorial
chapter's examples locally.

Possibly we should reword the tutorial intro a bit, to the effect
that you can follow along with the examples if you have a source
tree at hand.  (Sadly, that's not going to be very many novices
these days.)

			regards, tom lane

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