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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael Martinez <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:45:42 -0400
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Preferably, any tool that we would use would save a reasonably plain
> text source file that we could check into VCS and would provide a tool
> for automatically converting to a variety of target formats.  For
> example, graphviz could work well.  (Not saying that graphviz is the
> right tool for producing the kinds of diagrams that you want, but it
> provides the right toolchain interfaces.)  Dia might, but it would be
> interesting to see how human-readable that XML format really is.  (This
> is necessary for change tracking.  I would like to use a diff tool to
> see what happened to a diagram over various revisions.  If opening the
> file in the editing tool, changing one bit, and saving it produces a
> completely different machine-readable-only XML mush, then it's no good.)

It's ugly, but it seems to work reasonably.  You have to explicitely
tell it not to compress the .dia files.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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