From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Tutorial from Chapter 2.1
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sunday, August 10, 2025, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> 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.)

> I’d rather remove it from the docs and make a home for it in the wiki or,
> probably better, have a separate git repository that they could clone.

Making it buildable standalone would be a significant investment
of effort I fear.  Right now it's dependent on the autoconf/makefile
infrastructure of the surrounding Postgres source tree.

The other problem would be keeping it in sync with the tutorial
docs proper.  I guess we could pull those out of the main
documentation altogether, and make "the Postgres tutorial" into
a fully standalone project.  But I'm not detecting a lot of
enthusiasm for doing the work.

			regards, tom lane