| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Images in the official documentation |
| Date: | 2018-02-27 15:13:42 |
| Message-ID: | 3f20469f-57b0-33cc-6bcc-e92316d52cbd@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 2/26/18 20:02, Craig Ringer wrote:
> If I were maintaining the docs in a vacuum, I'd use graphviz for
> something like that, because it's a figure that does need regular
> updates and changes. And because
> the list of fun things to do in my life definitely does not include
> hand-writing SVG. Not that tweaking GraphViz .dot is fun, but it's the
> default tool for a reason.
>
> I'd be awfully tempted to generate the node-map part of the catalog
> relationship .dot file from a query, too.
I think graphviz would be a great fit for what we are discussing here.
Certainly more so then some-person-on-github's latest idea for how to
convert ASCII art into diagrams.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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