Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A3386328C5 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:50:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95017-09 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 14:50:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-out1.uio.no (mail-out1.uio.no [129.240.10.57]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92EC26327D1 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 11:50:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail-mx4.uio.no ([129.240.10.45]) by mail-out1.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyncw-0005G6-FG; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:50:10 +0200 Received: from ti0153a380-2121.bb.online.no ([83.108.27.77] helo=[10.1.1.200]) by mail-mx4.uio.no with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) user rafael (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nyncw-0008MH-0b; Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:50:10 +0200 Message-ID: <4BB9F919.2090709@usit.uio.no> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 16:52:09 +0200 From: Rafael Martinez User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams References: <4BB9E69F.9080203@usit.uio.no> <20317.1270476132@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <20317.1270476132@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Ratelimit-Test: rcpts/h 2 msgs/h 1 sum rcpts/h 2 sum msgs/h 1 total rcpts 2049 max rcpts/h 14 ratelimit 0 X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-8.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, UIO_PGP_SIGNED=-3, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: 951C3F93A934D6F1BCC3B52ABADE4C8AA82F4697 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 83.108.27.77 spam_score: -79 maxlevel 80 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 1 total 3 max/h 1 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.001 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201004/31 X-Sequence-Number: 5430 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > Rafael Martinez writes: >> I am wondering if we have ever evaluated the use of explanatory diagrams >> in the PostgreSQL documentation. > > There actually used to be some. We've moved away from them, I believe, > because of the difficulty of maintenance; which stems mainly from the > lack of any universally-available tools. Unless you can tell me what > you're going to draw the diagram with and how people on Unix, Windows, > or Mac could modify it later, I'm going to not be very interested ... > > regards, tom lane Well, I was thinking about DIA [1]. It runs on Unix, Windows and Mac. It loads and saves diagrams to a custom XML format and it can export diagrams to a number of formats, including EPS, SVG, XFIG, WMF and PNG. I have to admit that I have only use this program on Linux. [1] http://live.gnome.org/Dia/ regards - -- Rafael Martinez, Center for Information Technology Services University of Oslo, Norway PGP Public Key: http://folk.uio.no/rafael/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAku5+QcACgkQBhuKQurGihQhigCeIL+aEVrgL9yMtLsttxiYzHAU uQ0An1N6VufuYzPBiAZc16uKzsU4HxV0 =NySa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----