| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Rafael Martinez <r(dot)m(dot)guerrero(at)usit(dot)uio(dot)no>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Marc Fournier <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams |
| Date: | 2010-07-03 23:16:09 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTilcXNTMNB-NypnELe8utn2iDkzAEauzslih-3Qm@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Seems like a good one. But I'd still like to know the answer to the
>> question I asked upthread - how is anyone supposed to generate images
>> this way?
>
> Hmm, judging from
> http://live.gnome.org/Dia
>
> the answer is that .dia files aren't meant to be human readable but only
> to be a storage format for WYSIWYG editing. I find this less than
> thrilling: it essentially means you *can't* edit the images any other
> way than using dia. (I'd bet a nickel that any small change results in
> massive changes in the file contents, too, which will be un-fun for
> keeping them in a VCS.)
Anyone know of any other alternatives we could investigate?
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise Postgres Company
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