Old Postgres papers (was Re: [HACKERS] OO and tuples of different types)

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 09:03:34PM +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> >
> > Came across this comment in execTuples.c...
> >
> > *In the implementation of nested-dot queries such as
> > *"retrieve (EMP.hobbies.all)", a single scan may return tuples
> > *of many types, so now we return pointers to tuple descriptors
> > *along with tuples returned via the tuple table. This means
> > *we now have a bunch of routines to diddle the slot descriptors
> > *too. -cim 1/18/90
> >
> > Hmm. Another few years of reading the source and I'll probably
> > understand all this :-) :-(.
> >
> > Can anybody provide any insight? Like What EMP.hobbies.all meant in
> > postquel?
>
> You can get the latest sources for postgres 4.2 (from 30.06.1994)
> from http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/postgres.html
>
> IIRC they have a small manual inside the tarball
>

If you can read academese, a bunch of white papers and technical reports
are available at:

http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/

Ross
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