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> "Relatively simple - at least on Ubuntu / Debian"

I realize we're all professionals here and technical know-how is expected, but nothing about this is "simple". Brings me PTSD of working w/ academics' alphabet soup of "open source" simulation code written in C, Perl and Makefiles.

Build tools have come along away, maybe not with vanilla Postgres installs, but I guess that's what DBAs are paid to know these days.

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I honestly don't see what's so hard about the gp's set of instructions. Your grandma doesn't need to install alpha builds of PostgreSQL (though I shouldn't assume, there are some technical grandmas out there ;) ), for 99% of people out there they can use "apt-get" or "yum" or whatever and can wait until the release.

So let's turn this around, how would you like to see builds become easier?

I was cranky earlier, I just want better documentation. Postgres has slowly gotten better about this over the years.

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