Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9506F6332AA for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 23:29:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60250-10 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:29:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com (host-215.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.215]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C2B632EA4 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 23:29:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8587834C213; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 19:29:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at commandprompt.com Received: from spinlock.commandprompt.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (spinlock.commandprompt.com.commandprompt.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JY2RQb-xYKcs; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 19:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alvh.no-ip.org (pc-157-80-86-200.cm.vtr.net [200.86.80.157]) by spinlock.commandprompt.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 01BA234C210; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 19:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DF19D438219; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 22:29:42 -0400 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Cc: Rafael Martinez , Robert Haas , pgsql-docs Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams From: Alvaro Herrera To: Bruce Momjian In-reply-to: <201007100001.o6A01to03428@momjian.us> References: <201007100001.o6A01to03428@momjian.us> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:29:42 -0400 Message-Id: <1278728731-sup-888@alvh.no-ip.org> User-Agent: Sup/0.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.001 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_20=-0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/89 X-Sequence-Number: 5745 Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie jul 09 20:01:55 -0400 2010: > Where are we on this? Application? dia? xfig? Number of colors? Once > we decide these items, we can start adding diagrams. I think the first step is defining the source format. The proposed patch uses the dia XML source format, but this is said to have some drawbacks (namely: the source is too verbose, the generated png is too bloated, and only one tool to handle it). SVG was also proposed as an alternative, but there wasn't much discussion about it. And finally we have xfig. So what is it? Maybe we could have diagrams generated by different tools; e.g. we could use GraphViz for some things.