Re: Images in the official documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Images in the official documentation
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Msg-id 3f20469f-57b0-33cc-6bcc-e92316d52cbd@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Images in the official documentation  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Images in the official documentation
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On 2/26/18 20:02, Craig Ringer wrote:
> If I were maintaining the docs in a vacuum, I'd use graphviz for
> something like that, because it's a figure that does need regular
> updates and changes. And because
>  the list of fun things to do in my life definitely does not include
> hand-writing SVG. Not that tweaking GraphViz .dot is fun, but it's the
> default tool for a reason.
> 
> I'd be awfully tempted to generate the node-map part of the catalog
> relationship .dot file from a query, too.

I think graphviz would be a great fit for what we are discussing here.
Certainly more so then some-person-on-github's latest idea for how to
convert ASCII art into diagrams.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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