From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <201007180446.o6I4kUG09416@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
In-Reply-To: <7984.1279376823@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 00:46:30 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> writes:
> > On Jul 16, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're talking about here, this is a
> >> really, really bad idea.
> 
> > You're misunderstanding.
> 
> Yeah, I think that in the main you guys are in violent agreement.
> 
> > My feeling is that SVG is a decent lowest common denominator.
> 
> I think this might be true in principle but not necessarily in
> practice.  For example, if two tools write out SVG with different
> whitespace layout, that's going to kill diff-ing and VCS friendliness.
> This could probably be worked around, eg by settling on some particular
> tool as the one to run it through before committing (sort of a pgindent
> for graphics).  But we need to do some experimentation with specific
> tools and see what the output really looks like and how it changes
> given small changes in the diagram, before we choose anything.

Well, if we want _any_ images for the 9.0 docs, we had better decide
soon.

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