The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/index.html Description:
I tried following the instructions on chapter 17 about the "Installation From Source Code on Windows" but they seem a bit confusing at practice when having to work with other extensions. It is written that it can be built using MinGW, which uses the normal build system, so it appears to be a safer method. Then the documentation tells us to move to chapter 16.7.5. MinGW/Native Windows. There, the documentation tells us to use MSYS which has a collection of Unix tools required to run shell scripts. But when I tried using an extension like Apache AGE, when I ran the "make" command under the apache age directory as " make PG_CONFIG=~/pgsql-11.17/bin/pg_config.exe install " it showed an error message about conflicting variable declarations (redeclaration of variables in different files). These files where both under the " POSTGR~1.17/include/server " and " msys64/mingw64/include " and the error was with the 'DECIMAL' variable (it was declared as a struct in one file but integer in another). To resolve this issue, I installed the Terminal app in the Microsoft Store and used the Ubuntu terminal. There the Short Version installation worked without errors with the Apache AGE extension installation. So, it would be nice to include an "Install Terminal app" option in the documentation, since this way is very easy to follow.
