Re: [HACKERS] Help a newbie?

> Rafael Kaufmann <rnedal(at)olimpo(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> > technological mainstream) and I've been trying to learn more about the
> > PostgreSQL internals, maybe even help with its development. So I
> > downloaded the source tarball for the last release.
>
> Actually, I'd recommend working from a recent snapshot --- there's been
> many changes and improvements since 6.4.2.
>
> > So I'd really appreciate it if anyone would point me in the
> > direction of some in-depth docos, detailed texts about the Postgres
> > architecture or anything else that would help me get started hacking.
>
> There is a fair amount of stuff in the Administrator's Guide,
> Programmer's Guide, and Developer's Guide parts of the manual.
> It won't all make sense on first reading, but I'd certainly recommend
> reading those parts of the manual thoroughly.
>
> There are also useful bits of documentation buried in less-obvious
> places, such as the backend flowchart in src/tools/backend/flow.jpg
> and the README files found in many of the sourcecode directories.
Don't forget the developers FAQ.

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