Re: improve installation short version

2021-06-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 02.06.21 23:27, Andrew Dunstan wrote: It's not the fault of your patch, but the docs seem to be misleading in ways that your comments don't fix. (Or perhaps my Windows knowledge is just too lacking to realize why these instructions are ok?) Prior to where your patch makes changes, the do

Re: improve installation short version

2021-06-03 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 6/2/21 5:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan writes: >> On 6/2/21 4:58 PM, Mark Dilger wrote: >>> Prior to where your patch makes changes, the docs say, "If you are building >>> PostgreSQL for Microsoft Windows, read this chapter if you intend to build >>> with MinGW or Cygwin". I think

Re: improve installation short version

2021-06-02 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > On 6/2/21 4:58 PM, Mark Dilger wrote: >> Prior to where your patch makes changes, the docs say, "If you are building >> PostgreSQL for Microsoft Windows, read this chapter if you intend to build >> with MinGW or Cygwin". I think going on to tell the users to use `su` is

Re: improve installation short version

2021-06-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 6/2/21 4:58 PM, Mark Dilger wrote: > >> On Jun 2, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> >> > It's not the fault of your patch, but the docs seem to be misleading in ways > that your comments don't fix. (Or perhaps my Windows knowledge is just too > lacking to realize why these instru

Re: improve installation short version

2021-06-02 Thread Mark Dilger
> On Jun 2, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > It's not the fault of your patch, but the docs seem to be misleading in ways that your comments don't fix. (Or perhaps my Windows knowledge is just too lacking to realize why these instructions are ok?) Prior to where your patch mak

improve installation short version

2021-06-02 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I just had a case where a new user was slightly confused by our installation "Short Version" instructions. I think the confusion would be lessened by adding a couple of comments, as in the attached patch. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com diff --git a/doc/src/