From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <201004140102.o3E129n06944@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
In-Reply-To: <4BBA6B67.5060400@usit.uio.no>
To: Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:02:09 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
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Rafael Martinez wrote:
> > Given that's how the work is being done by community members right now,
> > I think you'd make better progress asking how to index the material in
> > those slides better and provide a hotlist of good slides on the Wiki.  I
> > consider fighting the battle to get the diagrams directly into the docs
> > the way it would need to be done to be both impractical and a waste of
> > resources, given many of these diagrams do already exist (and new ones
> > are constantly generated) if you follow the presentation scene.
> > 
> 
> I still think that the right place to have explanatory diagrams is in
> the official documentation and not a wiki or external document with
> pointers to other documents/presentations.
> 
> They would make some important parts of the documentation much more
> easier to understand. This is especially important for new users of
> PostgreSQL and users who are trying to get an overview of PostgreSQL in
> a evaluation process.
> 
> I know that most contributors have more than enough to do with the new
> release, and I don't want to create more work at this time. So maybe it
> will be better to fight this battle after 9.0 is released. :-)

OK, DIA sounds like it meets the requirements, and it would be good to
get some images into our documentation.  I wonder if it could import
some of my xfig diagrams;  if so, I could probably keep the images you
took from me updated in CVS.

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