> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > No. I will turn it into an FAQ, and the item will be "How do I install
> > PostgreSQL on MS Windows". How's that?
>
> I don't see how that would be better. Why this artificiality?
> Installation instructions belong into INSTALL files. FAQs are questions
> asked by people because the documentation is incomplete or the software is
> badly designed. I mean, you could make everything a FAQ, but FAQs should
> be a backup thing, not a first order documentation resource.
Currently all our platform-specific files are FAQ's. I can imagine
someone realizing that, looking for an MS one, and giving up and never
seeing INSTALL_MSWIN. Also, the platform-specific stuff is on the web
pages under FAQ. I don't want to make a separate section just for the
MS OS.
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