Re: [DOCS] Graphic to visualize data flow between processes, buffers and files

2016-01-17 Thread Alexander Law
Hello, I think, that SVG should be preferred format too, as it (beside other forementioned advantages): 1) Supported by DocBook (http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/svg-svg.html) and you can just embed an image in the docbook.xml (http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/publishers/5.1b3/en/html/_any.svg.ht

Re: [DOCS] Graphic to visualize data flow between processes, buffers and files

2016-01-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jürgen Purtz wrote: > Recommendations: > > * We suggest the use of Inkscape. It creates the above mentioned >format by performing the following steps > o File | Clean up document > o File | Save as | Plain SVG As in the original discussion, this is probably too fiddly and the resu

Re: [DOCS] Graphic to visualize data flow between processes, buffers and files

2016-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?Q?J=c3=bcrgen_Purtz?= writes: > I wonder whether we should have a graphic showing an overview of the > main backend processes and their interaction with memory and files - > something like figure 15-1 of: > https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/CNCPT/process.htm. Or is there a > general