| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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| To: | Gerhard Wiesinger <lists(at)wiesinger(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Internals of PostgreSQL - Documentation or presentations |
| Date: | 2007-05-13 22:50:17 |
| Message-ID: | 20070513225017.GD69517@nasby.net |
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On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:44:48PM +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> Are there some presentations or documents of the internals of PostgreSQL
> available?
>
> Especially I'm looking for the concepts and detailed internals of general
> transaction handling, internals of commit log, transaction logs,
> pg_multixact, pg_subtrans, pg_tblspc and pg_twophase.
>
> Also some comments about concurrent access with multiple processes,
> locking and shared memory concepts (or other communication systems used)
> would be nice.
>
> I already found
> http://www.postgresql.org/files/developer/internalpics.pdf
> but some comments are missing to understand it well.
Best bet is to use the source... src/backend/access/transam/README
should get you started.
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Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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