Re: make tutorial 13.2

Nikolay Samokhvalov <samokhvalov(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 08:43 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Apparently, you didn't install whichever sub-package of the Postgres
>> distribution contains pg_config. Might be postgresql-devel, or
>> postgresql-dev in Debian-flavored distros. The PG project documentation
>> can't cover this; it's the responsibility of each group of packagers to
>> decide (and document) how their distributions are laid out.

> Why? This adds complexity that is relatively easy to get rid of.

What you're proposing adds complexity that is impossible to get rid of.

> There already exist the pages for RHEL/CentOS, Ubuntu, etc. with code
> snippets
> https://www.postgresql.org/download/ -- having something like that in the
> docs would be great.

Those pages merely point to various package sets, they don't attempt to
track details of how the package sets are laid out. If we tried to
include such info in our core docs, it would inevitably soon be out of
date, because there'd be no mechanism for keeping it up to date with
packagers' decisions. Not to mention the confusion factor from people
reading something about package set A and supposing that it applies to
package set B as well.

(As an example, the info on
https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
describes the packages Devrim builds; it probably isn't very accurate
for the postgresql packages that Red Hat themselves ship.)

regards, tom lane