From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: TOC: List of Figures
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:10:01 -0400
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
>> On 8 Jul 2019, at 21:43, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> This would make sense if we had fifty images spread evenly throughout
>> the documentation, or moreover, we had an image for every topic. Then
>> learning by just flipping through the images would be interesting. But
>> we are not nearly there yet. Promoting a list of images now would just
>> make those looking for that kind of learning sad.
> We regularly include scaffolding for things to come in Postgres, I don’t see
> this being much different. It will have just a few images now, but by the time
> v13 ships we are likely to have a longer list which increase the value of this
> further.
I tend to agree with Peter's argument here --- let's wait till there's a
meaningful number of figures and then reconsider whether there's use in
a list of them. It's not like it will be any harder to make that change
in a year or two than it is today.
regards, tom lane
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