Rafael Martinez wrote:
> > Given that's how the work is being done by community members right now,
> > I think you'd make better progress asking how to index the material in
> > those slides better and provide a hotlist of good slides on the Wiki. I
> > consider fighting the battle to get the diagrams directly into the docs
> > the way it would need to be done to be both impractical and a waste of
> > resources, given many of these diagrams do already exist (and new ones
> > are constantly generated) if you follow the presentation scene.
> >
>
> I still think that the right place to have explanatory diagrams is in
> the official documentation and not a wiki or external document with
> pointers to other documents/presentations.
>
> They would make some important parts of the documentation much more
> easier to understand. This is especially important for new users of
> PostgreSQL and users who are trying to get an overview of PostgreSQL in
> a evaluation process.
>
> I know that most contributors have more than enough to do with the new
> release, and I don't want to create more work at this time. So maybe it
> will be better to fight this battle after 9.0 is released. :-)
OK, DIA sounds like it meets the requirements, and it would be good to
get some images into our documentation. I wonder if it could import
some of my xfig diagrams; if so, I could probably keep the images you
took from me updated in CVS.
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