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Providing this information as plain text was doubtless worth the trouble ten years ago, but it seems likely that hardly anyone reads it in this format anymore. And the effort required to maintain these files (in the form of extra-complex markup rules in the relevant parts of the SGML documentation) is significant. So, let's stop doing that and rely solely on the other documentation formats. Per discussion, the plain-text INSTALL instructions might still be worth their keep, so we continue to generate that file. Rather than remove HISTORY and src/test/regress/README from distribution tarballs entirely, replace them with simple stub files that tell the reader where to find the relevant documentation. This is mainly to avoid possibly breaking packaging recipes that expect these files to exist. Back-patch to all supported branches, because simplifying the markup requirements for release notes won't help much unless we do it in all branches.
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(This file does not appear in release tarballs.)
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In a release or snapshot tarball of PostgreSQL, a documentation file named
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INSTALL will appear in this directory. However, this file is not stored in
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git and so will not be present if you are using a git checkout.
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If you are using a git checkout, you can view the most recent installation
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instructions at:
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http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/installation.html
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Users compiling from git will also need compatible versions of Bison, Flex,
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and Perl, as discussed in the install documentation. These programs are not
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needed when using a tarball, since the files they are needed to build are
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already present in the tarball. (On Windows, however, you need Perl anyway.)
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