| From: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
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| To: | hunter(at)cowing(dot)net, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Change link in tutorial to go to chapter 16 for binary installation |
| Date: | 2025-07-23 10:02:47 |
| Message-ID: | 8fe7cc2000e4012dbe33db3b3fed2b35b4989a42.camel@cybertec.at |
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On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 23:39 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> On the “Installation” page of the PostgreSQL 16 tutorial
> ([https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/tutorial-install.html](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/tutorial-install.html))
> I expected the recommended instructions to point to Chapter 16 (installing
> from binaries) rather than Chapter 17 (installing from source). After all,
> Chapter 16 even notes that “building from source (see Chapter 17) is only
> recommended for people developing PostgreSQL or extensions.”
Very true. However, the binary distributions that I am aware of don't
ship with tutorial binaries, so you have to build it from source.
I think that it would make sense to have a binary "tutorial" package,
but that is for the packager lists rather than for the bugs list.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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