From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Graphic to visualize data flow between processes, buffers and files
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 16:33:34 -0300
Message-ID: <20160105193334.GA296052@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <568C1401.1080209@purtz.de>
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Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> Recommendations:
>
> * We suggest the use of Inkscape. It creates the above mentioned
> format by performing the following steps
> o File | Clean up document
> o File | Save as | Plain SVG
As in the original discussion, this is probably too fiddly and the
resulting SVG files are going to be really ugly anyway. I think the
consensus was that we should use some toolchain that uses a source
format that looks like actual source code, such as the dot or xfig
formats, of stuff like that -- which is "compiled" into the target
graphic format.
As I recall, what we lacked was somebody with time and knowledge to
actually produce a useful image starting from such a source, produce
Makefile rules to run the transformation from the Makefiles, and to
inject the image into the SGML so that it works in the HTML and PDF
outputs. With such a proof of concept we're much more likely to take
this idea seriously.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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