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From: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 19:26:34 +0100
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Subject: Re: Geometric function example results
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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On 1 July 2011 19:19, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes:
>> I noticed that there are no example outputs shown on the geometric
>> functions page (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-geom=
etry.html).
>> =A0So I've attached a patch which adds them. =A0I'm not entirely sure to
>> make of the 2 example outputs that are very large, but they're
>> included anyway.
>
> I think this is unworkable, because those tables are already so wide
> they barely fit on a page. =A0This will certainly not work for PDF output=
,
> and I don't think it'll look very nice in HTML either.

Yeah, you're probably right.  I didn't even think about the PDF
representation, so I guess that's more than enough reason to leave out
such examples.

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