# pg\_staging's bird view

DevFeed: [pg\_staging's bird view](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/pg-staging-s-bird-view-34357.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2009/12/pg_stagings-bird-view/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2009-12-08T11:04:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [Emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/emacs.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [file](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/file.md>)

Tags: [command](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/command.md>), [diagram](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/diagram.md>), [emacs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emacs.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [repository](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/repository.md>)

## AI overview

A short post presents a bird's-eye diagram of how pgstaging is operated, created with ditaa and Emacs. The author committed the diagram's text source to a Git repository and used ImageMagick's crop command to remove excess white space without using a mouse.

## Source excerpt

One of the most important feedback I got about the presentation of pgstaging were the lack of pictures, something like a bird-view of how you operate it. Well, thanks to ditaa and Emacs picture-mode here it is: Hope you enjoy, it should not be necessary to comment much if I got to the point! Of course I commited the text source file to the Git repository. The only problem I ran into is that ditaa defaults to ouputing a quite big right margin containing only white pixels, and that didn't fit well, visually, in this blog. So I had to resort to ImageMagik crop command in order to avoid any mouse usage in the production of this diagram.