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
