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authorTom Lane2010-09-09 17:19:40 +0000
committerTom Lane2010-09-09 17:19:40 +0000
commit0b81c7c4174ef97b10be58f29016af23549c6c12 (patch)
treed35509b28520e2e5a7b248ecf6104ec87ee53855 /doc/src
parent152c626105625eaa9f57539f5df45175183d6793 (diff)
Remove obsolete claim that gzip is needed while installing PG's documentation.
It isn't, now that we ship the docs as loose files rather than a sub-tarball. Also adjust the wording in a couple of places to make the lists of required software read more consistently.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index 434855267ea..8089d6c3a4e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.352 2010/09/08 20:35:51 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.353 2010/09/09 17:19:40 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="installation">
<title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]>
@@ -97,9 +97,7 @@ su - postgres
<para>
<application>tar</> is required to unpack the source
distribution, in addition to either
- <application>gzip</> or <application>bzip2</>. In
- addition, <application>gzip</> is required to install the
- documentation.
+ <application>gzip</> or <application>bzip2</>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -139,7 +137,7 @@ su - postgres
<primary>zlib</primary>
</indexterm>
- The <productname>zlib</productname> compression library will be
+ The <productname>zlib</productname> compression library is
used by default. If you don't want to use it then you must
specify the <option>--without-zlib</option> option to
<filename>configure</filename>. Using this option disables
@@ -237,7 +235,7 @@ su - postgres
<listitem>
<para>
- If you want to build the <application>PL/Tcl</application>
+ To build the <application>PL/Tcl</application>
procedural language, you of course need a <productname>Tcl</>
installation. If you are using a pre-8.4 release of
<productname>Tcl</>, ensure that it was built without multithreading
@@ -266,10 +264,10 @@ su - postgres
<listitem>
<para>
- <application>Kerberos</>, <productname>OpenSSL</>,
+ You need <application>Kerberos</>, <productname>OpenSSL</>,
<productname>OpenLDAP</>, and/or
<application>PAM</>, if you want to support authentication or
- encryption using these services.
+ encryption using those services.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>