Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > Rafael Martinez wrote:
> >> I am sending you a proposal with 13 diagrams to include in the manual so
> >> we can get an idea of how it will be. If it gets approved I will spend
> >> more time creating and including other diagrams and improving the build
> >> process for including figures into the manual.
>
> > Great!
>
> Where are the DIA sources for these? It's impossible to evaluate how
> maintainable these will be without seeing the source code.

OK, I put the dia sources online:

http://momjian.us/expire/pgsql-docs/dia/

They are XML files.

> > Also, there are two images that need to be updated for every major
> > release; is that something we want to commit to doing?
>
> -1 on that. The timeline thing is *certainly* not worth the maintenance
> effort, if indeed it even belongs in the docs at all (it looks more like
> marketing material). I think the lines-of-code diagram is not worth its
> keep either.

Sure, I can remove them, unless someone else wants to argue for their
inclusion.

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