Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakre...@gmail.com> writes: > I just spent some time helping a former colleague work out some basic setup > issues after he got stuck trying to follow the Getting Started section of > the manual [1] and almost gave up. For what it's worth, he's very > technical, but does not deal with Postgres setup regularly. > ... > Obviously this is not a solution for everyone, but I think packaging is > more common and more standardized these days, and administrators who may > have set up Postgres for you and can help you get started are less common.
Agreed, but I should think that properly packaged versions of Postgres will come with some package-specific instructions. Is that missing in Debian's version, or out of date, or did he just not read it? It might not be a bad thing for us to add some text near the head of "Getting Started" pointing out that it's meant for manual installations, and encouraging people to look to package-specific docs when present. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs