Re: pgsql: Doc: remove some long-obsolete information frominstallation.sgm

On 2019-09-06 15:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> Yeah, I suggest this:
> 
>> -  Also, this chapter does not describe the preferred way to install
>> -  <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> on Microsoft
>> -  Windows<phrase condition="standalone-ignore"> (for that, see
>> -  <xref linkend="install-windows"/>)</phrase>.
> 
> Also, I don't especially agree with removing that entirely: people should
> not have to read to near the end of the chapter to discover that they
> should have been reading some other chapter.  How about something like
> "If you wish to use Microsoft's Visual Studio to build PostgreSQL, do not
> read this chapter; see Chapter 17 instead"?

That sounds good.

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