Re: Need for "Getting Started" Tutorial
От | Joshua Kramer |
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Тема | Re: Need for "Getting Started" Tutorial |
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Msg-id | Pine.LNX.4.64.0705020942190.28640@localhost.localdomain обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Need for "Getting Started" Tutorial (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>) |
Список | pgsql-advocacy |
Chris, I did a sidebar on "how to configure PostgreSQL" in an article I did for Linux Journal a while back. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8085 This should be of some value, because I end up following those exact steps whenever I install a fresh copy somewhere. Based on your conversation, what additional information do you think is needed? Cheers, -Josh On Tue, 1 May 2007, Chris Browne wrote: > FYI, I left ~250 copies of a 2 page PostgreSQL brochure at local LUG's > booth at the IT360 show today. <http://www.it360.ca/> (This used to > be the show known as RealWorldLinux.) > > I'll find out tomorrow how many copies survived, or if they went > fast... > > I had several useful PostgreSQL conversations, including one which > suggested that there may be another would-be "Pervasive" out there, > that is, a company that would rather deploy PostgreSQL as their next > product version rather than have to substantially rewrite their > product to satisfy modern requirements. Don't know if that'll go > anywhere; it will need some later followup. > > The *other* thing needing followup was that someone observed that they > had some problems getting PostgreSQL to work properly, based on some > of the "default" documentation. This probably represents the fact > that different flavours of Linux behave a little bit differently, and > when people are new to Unix, in general, they may not have > sufficiently fine-tuned problem-solving skills to get past this "speed > bump." > > Seems to me that there is a need for a "getting started with > PostgreSQL on {flavours of Linux}" sort of tutorial. > > Those of us that build our own installs from scratch are probably > incompetent to prepare this; we are *way* too knowledgeable to even > notice the little speed-bumps that others are getting stuck on. > > This may well be a "recognize your Linux flavour" talk that applies to > various services; that's fine... > -- > let name="cbbrowne" and tld="linuxfinances.info" in name ^ "@" ^ tld;; > http://linuxdatabases.info/info/unix.html > "A 'Cape Cod Salsa' just isn't right." -- Unknown > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > >
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