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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: hunter@cowing.net
To: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Change link in tutorial to go to chapter 16 for binary installation
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:02:47 +0200
Message-ID: <8fe7cc2000e4012dbe33db3b3fed2b35b4989a42.camel@cybertec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <175322759735.783.8861107158516286496@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
References: <175322759735.783.8861107158516286496@wrigleys.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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