Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Rafael Martinez <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no> writes:
>> I am wondering if we have ever evaluated the use of explanatory diagrams
>> in the PostgreSQL documentation.
>
> There actually used to be some. We've moved away from them, I believe,
> because of the difficulty of maintenance; which stems mainly from the
> lack of any universally-available tools. Unless you can tell me what
> you're going to draw the diagram with and how people on Unix, Windows,
> or Mac could modify it later, I'm going to not be very interested ...
>
> regards, tom lane

Well, I was thinking about DIA [1]. It runs on Unix, Windows and Mac.
It loads and saves diagrams to a custom XML format and it can export
diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG.

I have to admit that I have only use this program on Linux.

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Dia/

regards
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Rafael Martinez, <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>
Center for Information Technology Services
University of Oslo, Norway

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