On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:15:56PM +0200, Gevik Babakhani wrote: Gevik,
> I know this might look like a childish question and you > probably might have a good laugh over this but I > would like to learn how PostgreSQL works inside-out. > Could anyone please give me some pointers of where to start > in/from the source code? You probably won't hear too many laughs. I don't think it's a childish question myself. The best place to start is probably Bruce Momjian's presentations. You can find some of them at http://developer.postgresql.org. Make sure you read the "Flowchart of the PostgreSQL backend" and follow all the links you can find there. Also read the whole "Internals" chapter in the documentation, at http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/internals.html Then you will probably need to poke at the README files spread through the source code. After that, there probably isn't much else short of reading the actual source code. If you like it, we will be hopefully hearing back from you again as you try to contribute something... -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Aprender sin pensar es inútil; pensar sin aprender, peligroso" (Confucio) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
