To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
cc: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>,
	Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams 
In-reply-to: <201106140034.p5E0Y3d03121@momjian.us> 
References: <201106140034.p5E0Y3d03121@momjian.us>
Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
	message dated "Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:34:03 -0400"
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:46:15 -0400
Message-ID: <12505.1308012375@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>>> Perhaps we should allow any SVG file to be imported, but only allow
>>> modifications by a single SVG editor.

>> How is that sensible?  The first change to the file will result in
>> exactly the mass of cosmetic diffs that we wish to avoid.

> I suggested this so we could get images into the docs and then only have
> a single diff change once the file is modified.  If we don't do that
> then all image additions have to be done by someone with the proper
> editor.

Or at least, somebody passes it through the "proper editor" before
committing.  As long as said editor can read SVG output from a
reasonable range of other tools, this doesn't seem that onerous.

			regards, tom lane