Re: Suggestion: Change link in tutorial to go to chapter 16 for binary installation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

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