On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 4:27 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > > And I think Davids comment about repetitive language would apply to yours > > as well, and should maybe be simplified there too? > > Per the discussion in the other thread, we concluded that being repetitive > was the only way to be sure people would see the material at all. > If you look at > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/runtime.html > > a lot of people are going to follow one of the section links before > they ever see any of the chapter head material. >
I think we're talking about a different repetitiveness. If I apply Davids suggestion to that patch, then instead of: + <para> + If you are using a pre-packaged version + of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, it may well have a specific + convention for where to place the data directory, and it may also + provide a script for creating the data directory. In that case you It would say something like Pre-packaged versions of PostgreSQL may have a specific convention.... (rest unchanged). //Magnus
