From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
Cc: | Steve Atkins <steve(at)blighty(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Images in the official documentation |
Date: | 2018-02-26 19:23:14 |
Message-ID: | 323.1519672994@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 26 February 2018 at 12:16, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> How can we resolve these issues?
> Question the assumptions and requirements. Why do we actually _need_
> diffable, mergeable images? Sure, it'd be *nice*, but what's the real world
> impact if we don't have it?
Well, I'll tell you exactly why I'm being sticky about this: we've been
down this road before. We used to have some figures in .gif format,
and one of the problems with them was they were too hard to update.
I don't buy the "they won't need updates" argument for a second, either.
For instance, I recall that one of the images we had was a diagram of
the system catalog cross-references, and it was constantly out of date
because of the difficulty of updating it.
Admittedly, this was 15+ years ago. Maybe the state of the art in
figure editors has advanced to the point where it won't be so hard.
But color me suspicious.
regards, tom lane
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