From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams |
Date: | 2010-07-18 04:46:30 |
Message-ID: | 201007180446.o6I4kUG09416@momjian.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com> writes:
> > On Jul 16, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're talking about here, this is a
> >> really, really bad idea.
>
> > You're misunderstanding.
>
> Yeah, I think that in the main you guys are in violent agreement.
>
> > My feeling is that SVG is a decent lowest common denominator.
>
> I think this might be true in principle but not necessarily in
> practice. For example, if two tools write out SVG with different
> whitespace layout, that's going to kill diff-ing and VCS friendliness.
> This could probably be worked around, eg by settling on some particular
> tool as the one to run it through before committing (sort of a pgindent
> for graphics). But we need to do some experimentation with specific
> tools and see what the output really looks like and how it changes
> given small changes in the diagram, before we choose anything.
Well, if we want _any_ images for the 9.0 docs, we had better decide
soon.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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