On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Andrew Borodin <boro...@octonica.com> wrote: > Hi, Kang and everyone in this thread. > > I'm planning to present the online course "Hacking PostgreSQL: data > access methods in action and under the hood" on edX on June 1st. It's > not announced yet, links will be available later. > This course I'm describing information that was crucial for me to > start hacking. Currently, my knowledge of technologies behind Postgres > is quite limited, though I know the border of my knowledge quite well. > > Chances are that description from my point of view will not be helpful > in some cases: before starting contributing to Postgres I had already > held PhD in CS for database technology and I had already implemented 3 > different commercial DBMS (all in different technologies, PLs, > paradigms, focuses, different prbolems being solved). And still, > production of minimally viable contribution took 3 months (I was > hacking for an hour a day, mostly at evenings). > That's why I decided that it worth talking about how to get there > before I'm already there. It's quite easy to forget that some concepts > are really hard before you get them. > > The course will cover: > 1. Major differences of Postgres from others > 2. Dev tools as I use them > 3. Concept of paged memory, latches and paged data structures > 4. WAL, recovery, replication > 5. Concurrency and locking in B-trees > 6. GiST internals > 7. Extensions > 8. Text search and some of GIN > 9. Postgres community mechanics > Every topic will consist of two parts: 1 - video lectures on YouTube > (in English and Russian, BTW my English is far from perfect) with > references to docs and other resources, 2 - practical tasks where you > change code slightly and observe differences (this part is mostly to > help the student to observe easy entry points). >
Thanks Andrey in advance. I am looking forward to meetingyou there at Edx. Regards, Zeray -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
