Re: community bonding

Thanks for your comments, Craig!

2018-04-26 21:03 GMT-07:00 Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> On 24 April 2018 at 12:22, Charles Cui <charles(dot)cui1984(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hi PostgreSQL community and mentors:
> >
> > Thanks for selecting my project as one of GSoC student projects! Pretty
> > exciting and honor to join the development for PostgreSQL (the best
> database
> > in the world :)). So for the first phase of this project (community
> > bonding), I am planning to go ahead to set up my developing environment
> and
> > familiar with the related code bases. And I have several questions
> regarding
> > this.
> > 1. What ide or command line tools do you guys used most for PostgreSQL
> > development?
>
> Varies.
>
> vim, emacs, whatever editor you want. Some people use VS Code. Some
> use Eclipse. You could code on Windows in Visual Studio if you want,
> or XCode on Mac OS X.
>
> I use vim with a bunch of plugins. Whatever floats your boat, really,
> so long as you set it up to help you follow the coding conventions and
> source structure rules re tab/spaces etc.
>
> > 2. What version control do you use for postgres? Is github acceptable?
>
> git. But patches are emailed to the list. Github is fine, but we don't
> use its pull request facilities, and the PostgreSQL source on github
> is a mirror of git.postgresql.org.
>
> The stuff about context diff on the wiki is pretty outdated, I think
> most people use unified diff now.
>
> > 3. How do you look at code in PostgreSQL code base? do you have cross
> > function reference where I can search function and definition online?
>
> Use whatever facilities your editor and tools provide. I use vim and
> cscope mostly, via "vim -t" and "ctrl-]". Visual Studio's Intellisense
> works, whatever you want really.
>
> There's doxygen generated documentation too, see
> https://doxygen.postgresql.org/ . I don't find it that useful.
>
> --
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