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 13:28:56
Message-ID: 30051.1567776536@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 2019-09-01 23:34, Tom Lane wrote:
>> So did the old wording, it seemed to me. I'm happy to remove the sentence
>> altogether if there's no reason to be pushing people away from MinGW.
>> Should we also rethink the sentence I added at the top of the chapter,
>> pointing Windows people to chapter 17?

> Yeah, I suggest this:
> ...

Hm, I'm tempted to also drop the sentence about the "ready-made installer"
then. It doesn't particularly belong here, and the only way to read it
is as a nudge to not use the MinGW build process.

regards, tom lane

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