Re: TOC: List of Figures

Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.documentation
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Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> writes:
>> On 8 Jul 2019, at 21:43, Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This would make sense if we had fifty images spread evenly throughout
>> the documentation, or moreover, we had an image for every topic.  Then
>> learning by just flipping through the images would be interesting.  But
>> we are not nearly there yet.  Promoting a list of images now would just
>> make those looking for that kind of learning sad.

> We regularly include scaffolding for things to come in Postgres, I don’t see
> this being much different.  It will have just a few images now, but by the time
> v13 ships we are likely to have a longer list which increase the value of this
> further.

I tend to agree with Peter's argument here --- let's wait till there's a
meaningful number of figures and then reconsider whether there's use in
a list of them.  It's not like it will be any harder to make that change
in a year or two than it is today.

			regards, tom lane
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