Thread: Geometric function example results
Hi, I noticed that there are no example outputs shown on the geometric functions page (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-geometry.html). So I've attached a patch which adds them. I'm not entirely sure to make of the 2 example outputs that are very large, but they're included anyway. Are these worth adding? Thanks Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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On 23 June 2011 13:09, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that there are no example outputs shown on the geometric > functions page (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-geometry.html). > So I've attached a patch which adds them. I'm not entirely sure to > make of the 2 example outputs that are very large, but they're > included anyway. > > Are these worth adding? Any opinions on this? -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes: > I noticed that there are no example outputs shown on the geometric > functions page (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-geometry.html). > So I've attached a patch which adds them. I'm not entirely sure to > make of the 2 example outputs that are very large, but they're > included anyway. I think this is unworkable, because those tables are already so wide they barely fit on a page. This will certainly not work for PDF output, and I don't think it'll look very nice in HTML either. regards, tom lane
On 1 July 2011 19:19, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes: >> I noticed that there are no example outputs shown on the geometric >> functions page (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-geometry.html). >> So I've attached a patch which adds them. I'm not entirely sure to >> make of the 2 example outputs that are very large, but they're >> included anyway. > > I think this is unworkable, because those tables are already so wide > they barely fit on a page. This will certainly not work for PDF output, > and I don't think it'll look very nice in HTML either. Yeah, you're probably right. I didn't even think about the PDF representation, so I guess that's more than enough reason to leave out such examples. -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company