Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B58632200 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 15:49:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60386-02 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 18:49:39 +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 595AD62EDA7 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 15:49:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail-mx2.uio.no ([129.240.10.30]) by mail-out1.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVUFy-00064A-Da; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:49:34 +0200 Received: from w3prod-wm02.uio.no ([129.240.4.215] helo=webmail.uio.no) by mail-mx2.uio.no with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) user rafael (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVUFx-0005gk-73; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:49:34 +0200 Received: from 129.240.6.205 (SquirrelMail authenticated user rafael) by webmail.uio.no with HTTP; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 20:49:33 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <1278124002.25901.12.camel@vanquo.pezone.net> <201007030241.o632fZ609530@momjian.us> <18382.1278198852@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 20:49:33 +0200 Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams From: "Rafael Martinez" To: "Robert Haas" Cc: "Tom Lane" , "Thom Brown" , "Bruce Momjian" , "Peter Eisentraut" , "Alvaro Herrera" , "pgsql-docs" , "Marc Fournier" Reply-To: r.m.guerrero@usit.uio.no User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-UiO-Ratelimit-Test: rcpts/h 8 msgs/h 1 sum rcpts/h 10 sum msgs/h 2 total rcpts 319 max rcpts/h 8 ratelimit 0 X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: 81FEF6397795D692B751E056A058BF36B3EF6497 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 129.240.4.215 spam_score: -49 maxlevel 80 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 50 total 365465 max/h 641 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.21 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201007/49 X-Sequence-Number: 5705 Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Robert Haas 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? > All this was tested and sent to the list in april 2010. Check this post for more information: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2010-04/msg00038.php As you can see, any small change does not result in massive changes in the file contents. -- Rafael Martinez, Center for Information Technology Services University of Oslo, Norway PGP Public Key: http://folk.uio.no/rafael/