Re: Geometric function example results

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Geometric function example results
Date: 2011-07-01 18:26:34
Message-ID: BANLkTinSd4ogeLFyFnGRj4YDy7ui02eetQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 1 July 2011 19:19, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)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.

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