Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I was feeling particularly organizational today and redrew one of the
> > figures from the documentation. In the PostgreSQL 7.3 PDF
> > documentation, it's the System Catalogs Diagram, or Figure 3. The major
> > POSTGRES system catalogs.
>
> Peter just removed all those figures because they were so out-of-date as
> to be useless. If you redrew from the figure rather than from looking
> at the actual catalogs documentation, I fear your version is too :-(.
>
> I'd be interested in having a nice figure to document the catalog
> relationships, but it has to be something that can be maintained over
> time. The reason the old figures got so out-of-date is that no current
> maintainer understood the tools they were generated with. So if you
> want to submit something, I'd ask that it be generated with open-source
> tools and that it come with an explanation of how to modify and
> regenerate it. Within those ground rules, go to it ...
My performance tuning PDF has a system table chart written using xfig so
it has almost infinite resolution:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/performance.pdf
It is the second to last slide.
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