From: | Zhe-Wei Jiang <jrreinhardt(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Wanna help PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2014-05-14 14:26:54 |
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Thanks Jeff.
2014-05-14 2:19 GMT+08:00 Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Zhe-Wei Jiang <jrreinhardt(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm new to the open source community, and wanna help in some
>> implementation work.
>> However, when I looked into the TODO list, I found most of the items are
>> very old.
>>
>
> So that is one thing you can do to help, try to improve the todo page!
> I've thought we should create a new badge for staleness (in addition to
> the Easy and Done ones) and add it to everything currently on the page,
> then remove it from ones that were recently evaluated and still seem to be
> relevant.
>
> And in the process, we should clarify why they haven't been done yet.
> Often what really needs to be done is not the implementation, but rather
> the evaluation of whether it is worth the trade offs involved.
>
Aren't I too unfamiliar with the postgreSQL project to help on this?
I think this should be coordinated by a more experienced contributor.
>
>
>> Therefore, I'd like to know if there is any entry-level implementation
>> needed by PostgreSQL now?
>>
>
> Did anything on the todo list strike your fancy, especially anything
> marked Easy? Even if it is old, it still might be valid. Then discuss it
> here on the hackers list, and if it not still valid we can remove it from
> the list. No point putting the sour milk back in the fridge.
>
>
The following two look easies to me:
[E] [image: Incomplete
item]<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/File:UntickedTick.svg>Add
full object name to the tag field. eg. for operators we need '=(integer,
integer)', instead of just '='. [E] [image: Incomplete
item]<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/File:UntickedTick.svg>Modify
pg_dump to create skeleton views for reload (which are then updated via
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW) when views have circular dependencies. This should
eliminate the need for the CREATE RULE "_RETURN" hack currently used to
address this issue.
Are they still in need?
Besides, for the following:
[E] [image: Incomplete
item]<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/File:UntickedTick.svg>Remove
warnings created by -Wcast-align
I tried to add -Wcast-align in the latest git source but found no warning.
Should this be removed from the TODO page?
> How much experience do you have using PostgreSQL (or for that matter,
> coding in C)?
>
>
Actually I never used PostgreSQL before.
I used to run mySQL but also not much experience.
I coded C++ for ~10 years and I guess C should not bring too much trouble.
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
Regards,
Zhe-Wei Jiang
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