Re: Free Tool to design Postgres Databases

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:56:48AM -0400, Martin Gainty wrote:
>
> Wolfgang
>
> I am compiling 8.4.1 and am seeking any/all architecture
> documents..right now the architecture (relationship of classes) i
> see is extracted from makefile dependencies An architecture document
> will detail the layout of the System Tables and their classes(sorry
> as neither C++/java is not the codebase this would be C functions)
> something like

Martin,

Mapping these low-level details to classes is exactly your wrong move
for the same reason that mapping disk blocks to classes is. It's
digging into implementation details--private methods--rather than
looking at the much higher level of abstraction that really concerns
it.

Cheers,
David.
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