Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> Seems like a good one. But I'd still like to know the answer to the
>>> question I asked upthread - how is anyone supposed to generate images
>>> this way?
>>
>> Hmm, judging from
>> http://live.gnome.org/Dia
>>
>> the answer is that .dia files aren't meant to be human readable but only
>> to be a storage format for WYSIWYG editing. I find this less than
>> thrilling: it essentially means you *can't* edit the images any other
>> way than using dia. (I'd bet a nickel that any small change results in
>> massive changes in the file contents, too, which will be un-fun for
>> keeping them in a VCS.)
>
> Anyone know of any other alternatives we could investigate?
>
All this was tested and sent to the list in april 2010. Check this post for more
information:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2010-04/msg00038.php
As you can see, any small change does not result in massive changes in the file
contents.
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