On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Corey Huinker <corey.huin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Over the past few months, I've been familiarizing myself with postgres > server side programming in C. > > My attempts to educate myself were slow and halting. The existing server > side programming documentation has some examples, but those examples didn't > show me how do what I wanted to do, and my research-via-google was highly > circular, almost always pointing back to the documentation I had already > found lacking, or a copy of it. > > Most of what I have learned I have culled from asking people on IRC, or > bugging people I've met through user groups and PgConf. In all cases, > people have been extremely helpful. However, this method is inefficient, > because we're using two people's time, one of whom has to tolerate my > incessant questions and slow learning pace. > > Furthermore, the helpful suggestions I received boiled down to: > 1. The function/macro/var you're looking for is PG_FOO, git grep PG_FOO > 2. Look in blah.c which does something like what you're trying to do > 3. The comments in blah.h do a good job of listing and explaining this > macro or that > There's also a good deal of README files in the source tree, so I would add: 4. find src -name 'README*'
