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From: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Thom Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael Martinez <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Cc: Marc Fournier <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 19:16:09 -0400
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On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
>> Seems like a good one.  But I'd still like to know the answer to the
>> question I asked upthread - how is anyone supposed to generate images
>> this way?
>
> Hmm, judging from
> http://live.gnome.org/Dia
>
> the answer is that .dia files aren't meant to be human readable but only
> to be a storage format for WYSIWYG editing.  I find this less than
> thrilling: it essentially means you *can't* edit the images any other
> way than using dia.  (I'd bet a nickel that any small change results in
> massive changes in the file contents, too, which will be un-fun for
> keeping them in a VCS.)

Anyone know of any other alternatives we could investigate?

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise Postgres Company

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