Thanks Gasper for the information! 2018-04-23 22:41 GMT-07:00 Gasper Zejn <z...@owca.info>:
> > On 24. 04. 2018 06:22, Charles Cui wrote: > > Hi PostgreSQL community and mentors: > > > > Thanks for selecting my project as one of GSoC student projects! > > Pretty exciting and honor to join the development for PostgreSQL (the > > best database in the world :)). So for the first phase of this project > > (community bonding), I am planning to go ahead to set up my developing > > environment and familiar with the related code bases. And I have > > several questions regarding this. > Welcome! > > I'm not a commiter, but I've been looking at Postgres as a side project > for a while now. You'll find that there's a lot to learn. > > 1. What ide or command line tools do you guys used most for PostgreSQL > > development? > I've had most success with Eclipse. Metin Döşlü presented a talk at > PGConf.EU on how to do that, but the slides[1] are not the most verbose, > as he did a live demo. My key takeaway was that you can get the backend > pid with pg_backend_pid() and then attach GDB in Eclipse. There's also a > page on Eclipse on wiki[2]. > > > > 2. What version control do you use for postgres? Is github acceptable? > Postgres uses GIT[3]. Github does host a mirror, however Postgres as a > project uses its own git and uses patch based workflow, which is > described on wiki[4]. > > > 3. How do you look at code in PostgreSQL code base? do you have cross > > function reference where I can search function and definition online? > > There's a doxygen[5] available, but most of that can also be done in > Eclipse. > > > > Also let me know if you have requirements in this phase which are not > > covered by my plan. > > > > Thanks Charles. > > A thing to note is that Postgres mailing lists are not top-post, so > please try not to do that. > Wiki is a great resource. > > Kind regards, > Gasper Zejn > > > [1] > https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2017/sessions/ > session/1605-hacking-postgresql-with-eclipse/ > [2] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Eclipse > [3] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/git.html > [4] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch > [5] https://doxygen.postgresql.org/ >
