Re: Suggestion: Which Binary?

Jim C. Nasby wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 07:01:18PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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>>David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> writes:
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>>>Yes, but even the environment variables get me what I want. I  
>>>therefore respectfully submit the attached patch to document them in  
>>>the INSTALL file.
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>>It seems rather pointless to document two instances of what is in fact
>>a generic autoconf-script behavior ...
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>The problem is that PostgreSQL is moving out of the realm of "hard-core
>geeks only" and more into the mainstream. I'd bet a number of our users
>have very little idea how autoconf and it's progeny work. It's probably
>not unlikely that those folks would be able to figure out where their
>perl was, but then not know how to tell it to configure.
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>

Most such users would use a binary distribution, though - either from 
the OS supplier or from our collection of binaries. If people are going 
to build postgres themselves from source then I *do* expect them to be 
moderately hard-core geeks.

cheers

andrew