> On 30 Aug 2020, at 17:21, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
>> + The discussions in this chapter assume that you are working with
>> + an unmodified version of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>,
>> + for example one that you built from source according to the directions
>> + in the preceding chapters. If you are working with a pre-packaged
>
>> Rather than "unmodified", would it be better to say something more
>> like "without any extra supporting infrastructure"?
>
> So maybe "... you are working with plain
> <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> without any additional
> infrastructure, for example a copy that you built from source
> according to the directions in the preceding chapters." ?
That seems pretty clearly worded to me.
> Do you have a feeling one way or the other about whether to repeat
> some of this text in each of the relevant sub-sections? I initially
> didn't want to do that, but thinking about how people consume the
> HTML docs, I'm afraid that anything not appearing on the same page
> won't get seen.
I think you're right here, duplicating the content is probably required for it
to be useful.
cheers ./daniel