Thanks Craig for teaching me a lot of things. I am just learning a lot why PG hacking/development is the way it is.
Regarding interest and enthusiasm, no problem. Whats is lacking is the skill-sets and I believe having interest and enthusiasm and with your support, we will expand PG hacking/devs/usage in Africa and other continents. People here in Africa using Oracle/SQL Server/IBM products(generally commercial products) even for which PG is more than enough. I want to change this scenario and trend and I hope one day in the future there will be PG conference in Africa/Ethiopia which is my country. Thanks, zeray On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 18 April 2017 at 15:41, Kang Yuzhe <tiggree...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Simon for taking your time and trying to tell and warn me the > harsh > > reality truth:there is no shortcut to expertise. One has to fail and rise > > towards any journey to expertise. > > Yeah, just because Pg is hard doesn't mean it's notably bad or worse > than other things. I generally find working on code in other projects, > even smaller and simpler ones, a rather unpleasant change. > > That doesn't mean we can't do things to help interested new people get > and stay engaged and grow into productive devs to grow our pool. > > > Overall, you are right. But I do believe that there is a way(some > > techniques) to speed up any journey to expertise. One of them is > mentorship. > > For example(just an example), If you show me how to design and implement > FDW > > to Hadoop/HBase., I believe that I will manage to design and implement > FDW > > to Cassandra/MengoDB. > > TBH, that's the sort of thing where looking at existing examples is > often the best way forward and will stay that way. > > What I'd like to do is make it easier to understand those examples by > providing background and overview info on subsystems, so you can read > the code and have more idea what it does and why. > > > But almost nothing about The Internals of PostgreSQL: > > Not surprising. They'd go out of date fast, be a huge effort to write > and maintain, and sell poorly given the small audience. > > Print books probably aren't the way forward here. > > -- > Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services >
