> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > No.  I will turn it into an FAQ, and the item will be "How do I install
> > PostgreSQL on MS Windows".  How's that?
> 
> I don't see how that would be better.  Why this artificiality?  
> Installation instructions belong into INSTALL files.  FAQs are questions
> asked by people because the documentation is incomplete or the software is
> badly designed.  I mean, you could make everything a FAQ, but FAQs should
> be a backup thing, not a first order documentation resource.

Currently all our platform-specific files are FAQ's.  I can imagine
someone realizing that, looking for an MS one, and giving up and never
seeing INSTALL_MSWIN.  Also, the platform-specific stuff is on the web
pages under FAQ.  I don't want to make a separate section just for the
MS OS.

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