Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E606331E0 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:58:04 -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 80145-09 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:57:47 +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 58A91632588 for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:57:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail-mx5.uio.no ([129.240.10.46]) by mail-out1.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyvEt-0003sX-4t; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:57:51 +0200 Received: from ti0153a380-2121.bb.online.no ([83.108.27.77] helo=[10.1.1.200]) by mail-mx5.uio.no with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) user rafael (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyvEs-0003ph-LB; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:57:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4BBA6B67.5060400@usit.uio.no> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:59:51 +0200 From: Rafael Martinez User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Smith CC: Tom Lane , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams References: <4BB9E69F.9080203@usit.uio.no> <20317.1270476132@sss.pgh.pa.us> <4BB9F919.2090709@usit.uio.no> <4BBA3A66.2070806@2ndquadrant.com> In-Reply-To: <4BBA3A66.2070806@2ndquadrant.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Ratelimit-Test: rcpts/h 6 msgs/h 2 sum rcpts/h 7 sum msgs/h 2 total rcpts 2055 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: 37A552EF38991B24501EF4ABA3007C5EF0EAA6E0 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 83.108.27.77 spam_score: -79 maxlevel 80 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 2 total 5 max/h 2 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.369 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=AWL=0.370, BAYES_20=-0.74 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201004/40 X-Sequence-Number: 5439 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Greg Smith wrote: [.......] > > Given that's how the work is being done by community members right now, > I think you'd make better progress asking how to index the material in > those slides better and provide a hotlist of good slides on the Wiki. I > consider fighting the battle to get the diagrams directly into the docs > the way it would need to be done to be both impractical and a waste of > resources, given many of these diagrams do already exist (and new ones > are constantly generated) if you follow the presentation scene. > I still think that the right place to have explanatory diagrams is in the official documentation and not a wiki or external document with pointers to other documents/presentations. They would make some important parts of the documentation much more easier to understand. This is especially important for new users of PostgreSQL and users who are trying to get an overview of PostgreSQL in a evaluation process. I know that most contributors have more than enough to do with the new release, and I don't want to create more work at this time. So maybe it will be better to fight this battle after 9.0 is released. :-) 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 iEYEARECAAYFAku6a1gACgkQBhuKQurGihTJjgCgjaCCkghoP8vr1auJJKwczM/4 EIMAnAsRhFfgj9pIG3hR6fsG0Bw8LjWa =lkA6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----