Re: pgsql: Doc: remove some long-obsolete information from installation.sgm

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Doc: remove some long-obsolete information from installation.sgm
Date: 2019-09-06 15:27:08
Message-ID: 18419.1567783628@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2019-09-06 15:37, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Also, I don't especially agree with removing that entirely: people should
>> not have to read to near the end of the chapter to discover that they
>> should have been reading some other chapter. How about something like
>> "If you wish to use Microsoft's Visual Studio to build PostgreSQL, do not
>> read this chapter; see Chapter 17 instead"?

> That sounds good.

OK, tweaked it along those lines.

regards, tom lane

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