Yeah that is what seems to be the best way. The thing is that I am looking in the PostgreSQL code for the first time and I am not fully aware of the data structures or the methods / algos implemented in the project. This makes the work of finding out whats and whys much more difficult. So I asked it on the list.
Thanks anyways for the reply. -Vaibhav (*_*) On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Vaibhav Kaushal > <vaibhavkaushal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have started with the work and am using Eclipse and it helps quite a > lot. > > I can find the declarations quite easily. Thanks to open Source. > > > > BTW, I am encountering too many (just too many) data types as I try to > > understand the backend (specifically the executor). I do think that its > > normal because the executor has to consider almost everything that the > other > > parts of the DB can possibly command it to do. > > > > Is there some documentation available on the data types / structures > which > > are in use at the backend? > > There's less than one might hope. I think you pretty much have to > look through the README files and source code comments. > > -- > Robert Haas > EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company >
