On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Sunday, August 10, 2025, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> Possibly we should reword the tutorial intro a bit, to the effect > >> that you can follow along with the examples if you have a source > >> tree at hand. (Sadly, that's not going to be very many novices > >> these days.) > > > I’d rather remove it from the docs and make a home for it in the wiki or, > > probably better, have a separate git repository that they could clone. > > Making it buildable standalone would be a significant investment > of effort I fear. Right now it's dependent on the autoconf/makefile > infrastructure of the surrounding Postgres source tree. > > The other problem would be keeping it in sync with the tutorial > docs proper. I guess we could pull those out of the main > documentation altogether, and make "the Postgres tutorial" into > a fully standalone project. But I'm not detecting a lot of > enthusiasm for doing the work. >
Would it be easier enough to modify the existing bits to generate a postgres tutorial extension that was distributed like the other contrib modules in core? This would also give existing packagers a simple way to make this available (or not) on their systems. Thoughts? Robert Treat https://xzilla.net
