Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B8F1E3525C for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:16:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from momjian.us ([72.94.173.45]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SpNwZ-0003VD-M7 for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:16:53 +0000 Received: from bruce by momjian.us with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SpNwK-0007SJ-V5; Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:16:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:16:36 -0400 From: Bruce Momjian To: Thom Brown Cc: Rafael Martinez , Tom Lane , pgsql-docs Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams Message-ID: <20120712181636.GC11063@momjian.us> References: <4C3973CF.80608@usit.uio.no> <9DCA3CE9-0DF2-4F9B-97A6-3FA538A949FB@blighty.com> <7984.1279376823@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4C42D1E6.8000703@usit.uio.no> <4C42DE5D.90607@usit.uio.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201207/14 X-Sequence-Number: 7388 On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:08:05PM +0100, Thom Brown wrote: > On 27 September 2010 15:29, Thom Brown wrote: > > On 18 July 2010 11:58, Rafael Martinez wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> 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: > >>   >>   >> > >> 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? One year later, we have made no progress on diagrams in our documentation. Do we at least have an agreed-up approach? -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +