Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EC88632231 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 20:16:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60031-04 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 23:16:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com (mail-iw0-f174.google.com [209.85.214.174]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05BB632672 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 20:16:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: by iwn7 with SMTP id 7so4390607iwn.19 for ; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:16:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=qkAJd+slvfcjx/jsvEzzqGPs+iHbhXZsdZJ7mwpvGB8=; b=FZRTzG3JCRpFIXcuKjrVV2HVUvcV/ry1VePIjuUuCGp8cmyI5tPZeLjbSSlIbIaMpX D88g/bAJRkI6sFxP1C+ota1Mv7y4UYKCRQ1aD+amhUTvDp2o3ewQD0U+V9P6d0LQo+1K CdU7LfpaXOu95DfTOs0lq4g0rGJXfhqobJqy0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=I0r0bh6eTHwAtUGtX6fsigZDcWFXez0zkzxud6HefegBvgdxhnU5mlfQe6zMOzqPIT HceGOdj1+h4fVwNmwU4AcyRh+tUvfKQ06cSMmIQt6jKmUG63lYx7A/reaONlT7Rfalxv Kw6kjsD98sMU0GY0jsKXqMUl6P9aOHbUNI1mo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.155.212 with SMTP id t20mr101333ibw.37.1278198969210; Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.37.193 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Jul 2010 16:16:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <18382.1278198852@sss.pgh.pa.us> References: <1278124002.25901.12.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> <201007030241.o632fZ609530@momjian.us> <18382.1278198852@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 19:16:09 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams From: Robert Haas To: Tom Lane Cc: Thom Brown , Bruce Momjian , Peter Eisentraut , Alvaro Herrera , Rafael Martinez , pgsql-docs , Marc Fournier Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/39 X-Sequence-Number: 5695 On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> Seems like a good one. =A0But 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. =A0I find this less than > thrilling: it essentially means you *can't* edit the images any other > way than using dia. =A0(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? --=20 Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company