Tom Lane wrote: > Steve Atkins <st...@blighty.com> writes: > > On Jul 16, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > >> Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're talking about here, this is a > >> really, really bad idea. > > > You're misunderstanding. > > Yeah, I think that in the main you guys are in violent agreement. > > > My feeling is that SVG is a decent lowest common denominator. > > I think this might be true in principle but not necessarily in > practice. For example, if two tools write out SVG with different > whitespace layout, that's going to kill diff-ing and VCS friendliness. > This could probably be worked around, eg by settling on some particular > tool as the one to run it through before committing (sort of a pgindent > for graphics). But we need to do some experimentation with specific > tools and see what the output really looks like and how it changes > given small changes in the diagram, before we choose anything.
Well, if we want _any_ images for the 9.0 docs, we had better decide soon. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + None of us is going to be here forever. + -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
