On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:16:23PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > >> All agreed, but what alternatives are being developed? > > > I seem to recall a proposal a while back to gain margin on some of > > the limits by pruning the release notes section down to at least > > this century and archiving putting the older ones elsewhere. > > Yeah; I did and still do think that's a good idea. But so far as > the toolchain is concerned, that's just a band-aid. > > Anyway, we're on XML now, and it seems to be working fairly well. I > don't feel a need to revisit that. It's probably true that the > TeX-based toolchain was potentially capable of producing finer > typesetting results than the XML chain ... but, honestly, who's > printing the PG manual on dead trees anymore? I find the PDF output > to be mostly a legacy thing in the first place.
Speaking of legacy things, do we want to see about deprecating LaTeX output for tables in psql? I haven't seen such a thing in production, but maybe I'm missing something important. Best, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
