Re: Redhat Post Installation instructions misleading

From: "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Keith Fiske <keith(dot)fiske(at)crunchydata(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Redhat Post Installation instructions misleading
Date: 2018-10-23 13:35:12
Message-ID: 61f95e13-8b4c-99bd-9054-404dec41a302@postgresql.org
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On 10/23/18 12:59 PM, Jonathan S. Katz wrote:
> Hi Keith,
>
> On 10/22/18 8:23 PM, Keith Fiske wrote:
>> Ran into an issue trying to help a customer get PostgreSQL running on
>> CentOS7. 
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
>>
>> Specifically when they got to the Post Installation instructions. The
>> way the headings are arranged makes this look like a completely distinct
>> set of instructions when they're in fact specifically only for the
>> distro provided packages. Had me confused a bit as well since I couldn't
>> figure out how they got the initialization command without the full path
>> as well as non-versioned service names. Seems it just needs to be made
>> more clear that these instructions are ONLY for the distro provided
>> packages.
>
> So if I'm understanding correctly, should we make the "Included in
> distribution" and "Post-installation" headers both "<h3>" (instead of
> "<h2>")?
>

Proposed patch attached. I also debated rearranging the
"Post-installation" and "Included in distro" sections, but I think to do
something like that would require more wordsmithing. This should at
least help with the current readability a bit.

Thanks,

Jonathan

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