On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 08:30 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 17/07/10 07:33, Steve Atkins wrote: > > Has everyone seen the "railroad diagrams" sqlite use in their docs? > > http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html , as one example. > > > > Would it be nice to have the same sort of format in the postgresql docs? > > (Yeah, I'm volunteering, if people think they're a useful thing, 'cos I > > think they'd add a lot to our documentation.) > > That would be nice. It would have to be automatically generated from the > syntax descriptions we already have, otherwise it'd be unmaintainable. > Also, the text representation would have to still be there in an alt tag > - I note that the the sqlite docs don't have that. > > Any idea how those sqlite images are generated?
I have used this: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~thiemann/haskell/ebnf2ps/ to make railroad diagrams from postgresql lex/yacc sources a few years ago, when looking into adding WITH support to pg. As it takes extended BNF as input i had to convert pg's lex+yacc into eBNF, which IIRC I did using some python scripts + manual tweaking. > -- > Heikki Linnakangas > EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com > -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
