Re: Question about Lockhart's book

Thanks very much Josh. Those sound like great ideas - I'll try to give
them a shot.

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> On 12/27/2013 08:14 AM, Christian Convey wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Thanks for your response. Sometimes overall software architectures stay
> > (mostly) unchanged for a long time, and so I figured that's possibly the
> > case for Postgresql as well. But I didn't know, which is why I asked.
>
> Some things in that book will still be accurate and informative. The
> problem is that you, as a beginner, won't know which things are still
> good and which are obsolete.
>
> I'd suggest:
>
> - Developer documentation in our primary docs
> - Developer FAQ on the wiki
> - Bruce's presentations on various internals
> - Tom's presentations on how the query planner works
> - Various other people's presentations on other aspects, such as foreign
> data wrappers, event triggers, etc.
>
> Unfortunately, there's no central index of presentations.
>
> I'm a big fan of "learn by doing", and here's a program which would
> bring you up on a LOT of PostgreSQL:
>
> 1. Write a few of your own C functions, including trigger functions and
> an operator.
>
> 2. Write your own foreign data wrapper for something.
>
> 3. Write your own Type, including input/output functions, stats
> estimation and custom indexing.
>
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