From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Message-Id: <201106122144.p5CLiN801167@momjian.us>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=9ozcMwuZFARp3mWOOGi27PtOQbw@mail.gmail.com>
To: Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:44:23 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>,
	pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
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Thom Brown wrote:
> On 27 September 2010 15:29, Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 18 July 2010 11:58, Rafael Martinez <r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no> wrote:
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> >> Thom Brown wrote:
> >>
> >>> Okay, I just edited an existing dia file: pgclient_server.dia. ?All I
> >>> did was change the font size of the text "client application" at the
> >>> top of the diagram, and changed the properties of a line so the
> >>> arrowhead was no longer on the end. ?I used dia 0.97.1 to edit the
> >>> file. The result when saving is attached in the diff file. ?That's a
> >>> lot of file changes for what I did.
> >>>
> >>> Thom
> >>>
> >>
> >> Indeed.
> >>
> >> The only explanation I can find to this is that I used dia.0.96.1 to
> >> generate the file and you have used 0.97.1 to edit it.
> >>
> >> Almost all changes are to the attributes:
> >> ?<dia:rectangle val=....
> >> ?<dia:point val=....
> >>
> >> I suspect that these changes have been done because 'something' have
> >> changed between the two main versions in the way they deal with these
> >> attributes :(
> >
> > Has anyone yet come up with a reliable and sensible format we can use?
> 
> Obviously nothing for this happened in time to make it for 9.1.  So
> are diagrams still something we plan to have?

Agreed, we need to move forward with something, and I am afraid we got
into bike-sheeting on this.  Would someone please summarize the previous
discussion so we can make some decisions and move forward?

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