Re: First SVG graphic

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org, Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Date: 2019-03-11T14:50:52Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> I played with this further.  My conclusion is that SVG as a source
> format is not workable.  Aside from the tooling issues that are being
> discussed, which might be solvable, I think it's not the right level of
> abstraction.

It does seem like using SVG as an intermediate format rather than a source
format might be a better idea.

> (We can have some discussion about whether we want to commit the
> intermediate SVG files and what the directory layout should be etc.   I
> didn't bother with that in my patch yet.)

Ideally, we'd treat them much as we do for bison output files:
we'll supply them in tarballs but you'd better have the relevant
tools if you want to build docs from a git pull.  However, that
may be assuming too much about the portability of the tools ...

			regards, tom lane


Commits

  1. doc: Add some images