Re: BUG #5250: Tutorial examples(pre-compiled) not present with precompiled binary version of PostgreSQL.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Ashish Anand <Ashish(dot)The(dot)Dev(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I downloaded from here
>> http://www.postgresql.org/download/windows
>> which leads to
>> http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgdownload.do#windows
>> and has a note:
>> The one click installer is maintained by Dave Page at EnterpriseDB.
>>
>> Also the documentation says:
>> Before you report a bug, please read and re-read the documentation to verify
>> that you can really do whatever it is you are trying. If it is not clear
>> from the documentation whether you can do something or not, please report
>> that too; it is a bug in the documentation.
>
> It's fine that you reported a bug - I'm not complaining.  But, the
> installer you used is not a community product, but rather something
> maintained by EnterpriseDB, so we don't necessarily have control over
> it.  However, I do know that several EDB folks, including I believe
> Dave Page, read this list, so perhaps one of them will see fit to
> comment.

He does, but he's been on leave and not paying much attention to the lists.

In 12 years of working with PG, I never noticed that directory
required building manually (which is why it's not it any installer
from EDB, or the community). Is there any reason for that?

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com