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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Nikolay Samokhvalov <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Current docs are too comlicated for new Postgre users; thoughts on improvement
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:37:17 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

Nikolay Samokhvalov wrote:
> Currently, Part III (Server Administration) starts with three chapters:
>   15. Installation Instructions
>   16. Installation on Windows
>   17. Operating System Environment

> I think that docs really need to be clarified, at least titles should
> be corrected. I'd rename chapter 15 to smth like 'Building from source
> code on *nix platforms", and 16th one to 'Building from source code on
> Windows' and chapter 17 (most important) to 'Creation and Initial
> configuration of database cluster' (maybe with some corrections of
> contents).

Changed to:

III. Server Administration
15. Installation from Source Code
16. Installation from Source Code on Windows
17. Server Setup and Operation

> Going further, I'd remove detailed building instructions from the
> beginning of Server Administration part (either to separate but single
> chapter or even to appendix) and describe in details how to install
> Postgres in different ways on different platforms, including:
>  - installation from RPM/deb/other packages;

Well, we can only describe what we ship.  It is up to those packages to 
adequately describe what they are doing.




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