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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2023-12-22 13:32:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2023-12-22 13:32:15 -0500 |
| commit | e2b73f4a4de6c2df6a1e623ad06b42f1bb2471ad (patch) | |
| tree | 2dba7aa8cba100d0f798a98e2eb7f680c70e81e0 /README | |
| parent | 8ddf9c1dc020d569d3a0aa22e3269a64e8a4ef23 (diff) | |
Stop generating plain-text INSTALL instructions.
Up to now, our distribution tarballs have included a plain-text form
of the installation.sgml chapter. The rationale for that was that a
recipient might not have either ready internet access or HTML-viewing
tools; a theory that seems downright quaint today. Maintaining the
ability to generate this file is not without cost, because it puts
special requirements on installation.sgml that are often overlooked.
Moreover, we are moving in the direction of making our distribution
tarballs be pure git snapshots for traceability/reproducibility
reasons; including generated files doesn't fit into that plan.
Hence, let's just drop INSTALL and remove the infrastructure for
generating it. The top-level README will now recommend visiting
our website to see the installation instructions. As a useful
side-effect, we can get rid of README.git which has provoked
confusion.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231220114927.faccqqprmuyrzdip@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e07408d9-e5f2-d9fd-5672-f53354e9305e@eisentraut.org
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 15 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -9,14 +9,13 @@ that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. -See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install -PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and -hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other -software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL -system. Copyright and license information can be found in the -file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this -distribution; it can be read as described in the installation -instructions. +Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. + +General documentation about this version of PostgreSQL can be found at: +https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/ +In particular, information about building PostgreSQL from the source +code can be found at: +https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/installation.html The latest version of this software, and related software, may be obtained at https://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information |