Re: Installation instructions vs binaries

> On 15 Sep 2020, at 02:43, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 8:05 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net <mailto:magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>> wrote:

> That leaves just the part of adding the actual new chapter of my patch. PFA. Thoughts on that?

+1 on this version of the patch.

It seems a bit odd to me to capitalize Download, but since it's the name of the
referenced section I guess it's ok. Personally I'd have lowercased it.
+ the Download section on the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> website at

> I kinda want to be blunt, though, and point out that if the user is using a pre-packaged version that the packager, and not the core team, accepts responsibility for problem reports related to installation, on their support channel. Please don't use pg-bugs.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect users to be able to separate bugs
caused by the installer and supporting scripts/wrappers, and those by for
example initdb. AFAICR it's mostly the Windows installer which we get reports
for on -bugs, and the devs responsible for said installer have been quite quick
at responding so I don't really see a problem.

> We provide links on our website as a convenience, not as endorsement.

Do we? For the software catalogue we explicitly say that we don't endorse any
software linked to but we don't do that anywhere on the PostgreSQL downloads
section. Since these links are very much curated, I would think it reasonable
for users to think of them as endorsed by PGDG.

cheers ./daniel