Geometric function example results

On 23 June 2011 13:09, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:

Hi,

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.

Are these worth adding?

Any opinions on this?

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Thom Brown <thom@linux.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.

regards, tom lane

On 1 July 2011 19:19, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

Thom Brown <thom@linux.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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Thom Brown
Twitter: @darkixion
IRC (freenode): dark_ixion
Registered Linux user: #516935

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