Re: pgstat documentation tables

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 18:22, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 18:00, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Something else to keep in mind is that PDF-format docs are not terribly
>>> forgiving of wide tables --- have you looked at what these look like in
>>> PDF?
>
>> I have not, and I can't seem to build them:
>> openjade  -D . -D . -c
>> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/dsssl/modular/catalog -d
>> ./stylesheet.dsl -t tex -V tex-backend -i output-print -i
>> include-index -V texpdf-output -V '%paper-type%'=A4 -o
>> postgres-A4.tex-pdf postgres.sgml
>> openjade:./stylesheet.dsl:678:2:E: flow object not accepted by port;
>> only display flow objects accepted
>
> Oh, not that again :-(.  We've never figured out exactly what triggers
> that AFAIR.

:-O

>> does that work for others, or did we break something globally in it?
>
> FWIW, I built all the back-branch versions in both US and A4 formats
> last week on Fedora 16.  Don't recall trying HEAD though.

I only tried HEAD. Trying 9.1 now, and I get the same crash there. Can
you (or someone) try it on Fedora with the latest tip of 9.1,
including the release notes, if those broke it?

>> I'm not sure I've ever tried to built it on Ubuntu 12.10 before, so it
>> could be that..
>
> FWIW, all the recent reports of this seem to be on Ubuntu or Debian.
> Don't know if that means few of us use Fedora or if it means Fedora has
> fixed this.  I wonder a bit about this patch Fedora is carrying:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=openjade.git;a=blob;f=openjade-1.3.2-gcc46.patch;h=962ac19ffea6bb6434ebb1a482d5604088192c7a;hb=fce180174c911b5982a5b1a45e09912c910e9bbf
> which is stated to be for a recent gcc change, but it does seem to
> have to do with creation of flow objects ...

My ubuntu has gcc 4.6.1, so AFAICT it would be affected.

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