Re: Official Windows Installer and Documentation

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 11:16:29AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:28:51PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 8:22 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > I wrote:
> > > If EDB isn't adequately filling in the documentation for the behavior
> > > of their packaging, that's on them.
> >
> > Having now looked more closely at the pg_upgrade documentation,
> > I don't think this is exactly EDB's fault; it's text that should
> > never have been there to begin with.  ISTM we need to simply rip out
> > lines 431..448 of pgupgrade.sgml, that is all the Windows-specific
> > text starting with
> >
> >      For Windows users, you must be logged into an administrative account,
> > and
> >
> > That has got nothing to recommend it: we do not generally provide
> > platform-specific details in these man pages, and to the extent it
> > provides details, those details are likely to be wrong.
> >
> >
> > I mean, we do provide platform-specific details/examples, it's just that
> > platform is a source installed Linux platform (though pathless)
> >
> > Does the avoidance of dealing with other platforms also apply to NET STOP or do
> > you find that an acceptable variance?  Or are you suggesting that basically all
> > O/S commands should be zapped?  If not, then rewriting 442 to 446 to just be
> > the command seems worthwhile.  I'd say pg_upgrade warrants an examples section
> > like pg_basebackup has (though obviously pg_upgrade is procedural).
>
> I have developed the attached patch to remove RUNAS and SET PATH,
> neither of which appear anywhere else in our docs.

Sorry, fixed patch.

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