From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200311100253.hAA2rbh26294@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: 
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 21:53:37 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>,
	pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com> writes:
> > I was feeling particularly organizational today and redrew one of the 
> > figures from the documentation. In the PostgreSQL 7.3 PDF 
> > documentation, it's the System Catalogs Diagram, or Figure 3. The major 
> > POSTGRES system catalogs.
> 
> Peter just removed all those figures because they were so out-of-date as
> to be useless.  If you redrew from the figure rather than from looking
> at the actual catalogs documentation, I fear your version is too :-(.
> 
> I'd be interested in having a nice figure to document the catalog
> relationships, but it has to be something that can be maintained over
> time.  The reason the old figures got so out-of-date is that no current
> maintainer understood the tools they were generated with.  So if you
> want to submit something, I'd ask that it be generated with open-source
> tools and that it come with an explanation of how to modify and
> regenerate it.  Within those ground rules, go to it ...

My performance tuning PDF has a system table chart written using xfig so
it has almost infinite resolution:

	http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/performance.pdf

It is the second to last slide.

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