Re: PostgreSQL Internals

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Germán Hüttemann Arza <ghuttemann(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Internals
Date: 2006-08-05 16:11:48
Message-ID: 28859.1154794308@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Germ=E1n_H=FCttemann_Arza?=" <ghuttemann(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'm a student of computer science from Asunci=F3n, Paraguay and I need to d=
> o
> an investigation about file layout, file organization, organization of
> records in files, storage access, access methods, indexing and hashing of
> PostgreSQL database.

> I searched widely in the Internet but I didn't find much. I also looked at
> the documentation at the web site with same results.

Start with the "internals" section of the SGML docs:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/internals.html
After you've absorbed whatever seems useful to you there,
start reading the source code. In particular there are a lot
of README files scattered through the source tree that go into
more detail than the SGML docs, and we also make an effort to have
well-commented source code.

regards, tom lane

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