On 29.06.18 22:57, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > That being said, since the ports tree is the “recommended” method for > installing software perhaps the documentation should mention it? Perhaps > something along the lines of the below (a similar stanza could be added for > FreeBSD but I don’t it well enough to make an attempt).
That part of the documentation describes how to set up a PostgreSQL instance from the sources. So that is what a packager might read. If you want to know how a package sets things up, you need to read the package's documentation. We could document the setup of popular packages in the main documentation, but we currently don't, and we would have to do it more consistently across platforms. -- Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services