On 12/27/2013 08:14 AM, Christian Convey wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for your response. Sometimes overall software architectures stay > (mostly) unchanged for a long time, and so I figured that's possibly the > case for Postgresql as well. But I didn't know, which is why I asked.
Some things in that book will still be accurate and informative. The problem is that you, as a beginner, won't know which things are still good and which are obsolete. I'd suggest: - Developer documentation in our primary docs - Developer FAQ on the wiki - Bruce's presentations on various internals - Tom's presentations on how the query planner works - Various other people's presentations on other aspects, such as foreign data wrappers, event triggers, etc. Unfortunately, there's no central index of presentations. I'm a big fan of "learn by doing", and here's a program which would bring you up on a LOT of PostgreSQL: 1. Write a few of your own C functions, including trigger functions and an operator. 2. Write your own foreign data wrapper for something. 3. Write your own Type, including input/output functions, stats estimation and custom indexing. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
