Re: Installation instructions vs binaries

2020-09-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 4:51 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander writes: > > I think we're talking about a different repetitiveness. If I apply Davids > > suggestion to that patch, then instead of: > > > + > > + If you are using a pre-packaged version > > + of PostgreSQL, it may well have

Re: Installation instructions vs binaries

2020-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander writes: > I think we're talking about a different repetitiveness. If I apply Davids > suggestion to that patch, then instead of: > + > + If you are using a pre-packaged version > + of PostgreSQL, it may well have a specific > + convention for where to place the data

Re: Installation instructions vs binaries

2020-09-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 4:27 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander 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

Re: Installation instructions vs binaries

2020-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander 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

Re: Installation instructions vs binaries

2020-09-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 4:06 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander writes: > > Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. How about like this? > > Isn't this pretty duplicative of d2511d713? > Eh yes, I clearly missed that one -- that's what I get for forgetting to put it in the CF :) That said, I still

Re: Installation instructions vs binaries

2020-09-08 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander writes: > Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. How about like this? Isn't this pretty duplicative of d2511d713? regards, tom lane

Re: Installation instructions vs binaries

2020-09-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 6:25 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 4:13 AM Magnus Hagander > wrote: > >> It's kind of strange that if you start your PostgreSQL journey by reading >> our instructions, you get nothing useful about installing PostgreSQL

Re: Installation on Cygwin

2020-09-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 5:52 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 09:40:59PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > > I happened to stumble over the Cygwin section of the installation docs, > and was > > surprised to see references to not entirely bleeding-edge Windows > versions: > > >