Dave Page wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Ashish Anand <Ashish.The.Dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Alvaro, Please read the?first?three mails in this thread.
> >
> > Dave, can you open a bug at your end. Just open it so that it can be tracked
> > two months down the line. I am not insisting on fixing it right now.
>
> There is nothing to fix at 'my end' at the moment (whichever end you
> consider that to be). As has been established in the later messages in
> the thread, the tutorial isn't built at all by the PostgreSQL MSVC
> build system, and on other platforms the installation location is
> fixed. As Tom as pointed out, we first need to determine we want it to
> work, and then apply the appropriate fix to PostgreSQL. Only then will
> the downstream packages make any changes, should they be required.
>
> My vote is to reword the docs so they don't say that binary distros
> will include the pre-built tutorial binaries, and then we can consider
> shipping the source files in the installers/rpms etc.
I have applied the attached patch which removes the mention that the
tutorial files are precompiled.
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<para>
Examples in this manual can also be found in the
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> source distribution
! in the directory <filename>src/tutorial/</filename>. To use those
files, first change to that directory and run <application>make</>:
<screen>
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<para>
Examples in this manual can also be found in the
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> source distribution
! in the directory <filename>src/tutorial/</filename>. (Binary
! distributions of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> might not
! compile these files.) To use those
files, first change to that directory and run <application>make</>:
<screen>
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</screen>
This creates the scripts and compiles the C files containing user-defined
! functions and types. (If you installed a pre-packaged version of
! <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> rather than building from source,
! look for a directory named <filename>tutorial</> within the
! <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> distribution. The <quote>make</>
! part should already have been done for you.)
! Then, to start the tutorial, do the following:
<screen>
<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>cd <replaceable>....</replaceable>/tutorial</userinput>
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</screen>
This creates the scripts and compiles the C files containing user-defined
! functions and types. Then, to start the tutorial, do the following:
<screen>
<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>cd <replaceable>....</replaceable>/tutorial</userinput>
