On 16 March 2016 at 01:02, Corey Huinker wrote:
> #1 git grep is a helpful reflex for discovering examples on my own, but it
> requires that I have a term to search on in the first place, and too often
> I don't know what I don't know.
>
Yep. This can be painful when you're trying to figure out
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Álvaro Hernández Tortosa
wrote:
>
> I started a similar thread with probably similar concerns:
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/56d1a6aa.6080...@8kdata.com
>
> I believe this effort should be done. I added to my TODO list to
> compile a list of used
I started a similar thread with probably similar concerns:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/56d1a6aa.6080...@8kdata.com
I believe this effort should be done. I added to my TODO list to
compile a list of used functions in a selection of picked extensions to
use that as a starting
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Joshua D. Drake
wrote:
> On 03/15/2016 10:30 AM, Corey Huinker wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Shulgin, Oleksandr
>> mailto:oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> There's also a good deal of README files in the source tree, so I
>>
On 03/15/2016 10:30 AM, Corey Huinker wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Shulgin, Oleksandr
mailto:oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de>> wrote:
There's also a good deal of README files in the source tree, so I
would add:
4. find src -name 'README*'
That too. But README's don't show
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Shulgin, Oleksandr <
oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de> wrote:
> There's also a good deal of README files in the source tree, so I would
> add:
>
> 4. find src -name 'README*'
>
That too. But README's don't show up (easily) in a google search, so they
elude discovery.
>
>
> I think this is all great. You may find some automated assistance from
> doxygen.postgresql.org .
>
> Sincerely,
>
> JD
doxygen is great as far as it goes, but it does a great job of separating
function definition from the comment explaining the function, so I have to
drill into the raw sou
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Corey Huinker
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
On 03/15/2016 10:02 AM, Corey Huinker wrote:
Some of these things may seem obvious/trivial to you. I would argue that
they're only obvious in retrospect, and the more obvious-to-you things
we robustly document, the quicker we accumulate programmers who are
capable of agreeing that it's obvious,
