"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2024 at 7:34 AM PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>
> wrote:
>> New and wanted to follow getting started docs but it seems it was written
>> for Unix. Would be nice if you built out the getting started docs for more
>> than Unix. whatever, no one probs reads this anymore. to the void you go!
> Maybe 1% of the content is OS-specific and those pieces seem easily
> translatable to Windows as it's basically just writing a different path.
Yeah, there's not that much that's environment-specific, but sadly
just about all of it is stuff a newbie has to deal with before writing
their first SQL command. I'm not sure how we can make that better in
an environment-agnostic way though. We are certainly not going to
provide N different sets of instructions trying to cover all the
popular packagings of Postgres: it would be a mess and would likely be
constantly out-of-date. As you say, that's really the responsibility
of the packagers.
Perhaps we should make "1.1. Installation" refer more explicitly to
packager-supplied documentation? And I wonder how many people reading
that really have a "site administrator" who is not them. Even for
people running Unix/Linux, that text seems like it's making archaic
assumptions.
regards, tom lane
