Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:26:52 -0500
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>,
	pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: First SVG graphic
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 02:49:48PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Dec-23, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
> 
> > b) Is it worth to visualize PG's tree-implementation in a separate graphic -
> > or is it the same as in every other tree-implementation that you have
> > learned in your academic studies? If yes: in which chapter?
> 
> Who's to say that every single reader of the PG documentation has had
> relevant academic studies?  My opinion is that these graphics are worth
> including even if they're well-known to many.

Agreed.  Indexing methods are mysterious without diagrams.

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