Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Merlin Moncure writes: >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> The reason that that project has gone untouched for upwards of ten years >>> is that it's not just a large coding project, but involves a lot of >>> complex API desi

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-14 Thread Tom Lane
Merlin Moncure writes: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> The reason that that project has gone untouched for upwards of ten years >> is that it's not just a large coding project, but involves a lot of >> complex API design with uncertain goals. It's not very clear what >> fea

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-14 Thread Andres Freund
On 2014-05-14 10:49:05 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > The reason that that project has gone untouched for upwards of ten years > > is that it's not just a large coding project, but involves a lot of > > complex API design with uncertain goals.

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > The reason that that project has gone untouched for upwards of ten years > is that it's not just a large coding project, but involves a lot of > complex API design with uncertain goals. It's not very clear what > features people would want from a

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-14 Thread Tom Lane
Zhe-Wei Jiang writes: >> I read the GSoC ideas page and think the only one I'm possibly to help for >> now is >> "Rewrite (add) pg_dump and pg_restore utilities as libraries (.so, .dll & >> .dylib)", >> while I'm still not clear with the whole postgreSQL project. >> >> If my understanding is corr

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-14 Thread Zhe-Wei Jiang
Thanks Jeff. 2014-05-14 2:19 GMT+08:00 Jeff Janes : > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Zhe-Wei Jiang wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm new to the open source community, and wanna help in some >> implementation work. >> However, when I looked into the TODO list, I found most of the items are >>

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-14 Thread Zhe-Wei Jiang
See, that's beyond my imagination. Then I have to do more research first before I can understand the other ideas. Regards, Zhe-Wei Jiang 2014-05-14 22:25 GMT+08:00 Stephen Frost : > Zhe-Wei, > > * Zhe-Wei Jiang (jrreinha...@gmail.com) wrote: > > I read the GSoC ideas page and think the only on

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-14 Thread Zhe-Wei Jiang
Forgot to include pgsql-hackers. 2014-05-14 22:11 GMT+08:00 Zhe-Wei Jiang : > Thanks Stephen. > > I read the GSoC ideas page and think the only one I'm possibly to help for > now is > "Rewrite (add) pg_dump and pg_restore utilities as libraries (.so, .dll & > .dylib)", > while I'm still not clear

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-13 Thread Jeff Janes
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Zhe-Wei Jiang wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to the open source community, and wanna help in some > implementation work. > However, when I looked into the TODO list, I found most of the items are > very old. > So that is one thing you can do to help, try to im

Re: [HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-13 Thread Stephen Frost
* Zhe-Wei Jiang (jrreinha...@gmail.com) wrote: > Therefore, I'd like to know if there is any entry-level implementation > needed by PostgreSQL now? > Any advise is appreciated. You might take a look at the GSoC ideas page instead: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2014 Thanks,

[HACKERS] Wanna help PostgreSQL

2014-05-13 Thread Zhe-Wei Jiang
Hi everyone, I'm new to the open source community, and wanna help in some implementation work. However, when I looked into the TODO list, I found most of the items are very old. Therefore, I'd like to know if there is any entry-level implementation needed by PostgreSQL now? Any advise is appreciat