Re: development environment of postgres

dakotalidavid(at)yahoo(dot)com (dakotali kasap) writes:
> I want to ask, which development environment should I use to add new
> features to postgresql. Is Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tool)
> suitable for this, or are you using another environment, or just
> using pico, vi, etc.?

I can't speak for you. I find my competence is maximized when I'm
using Emacs; others find other sets of tools preferable. The code
doesn't care what tool you're best with.

- There are people who will swear by vi + ctags.

- There are some who still use QED. (Albeit not for this project...)
<http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/qed.html>
(These would be extreme Unix partisans who think that the move from
ed to vi was a Bad Thing... :-))

- Others prefer some form of Emacs.

- One of my coworkers I think uses pico for most things; he's not keen
on either of the typical Unix editors.

As a quite wide-ranging rule, a worker who blames his tools for things
not working tends to be *spectacularly* incompetent. If you pick
tools you're not highly familiar with, you'll be liable to fall into
that sort of problem :-(. Pick an editor you are intimately familiar
with, and you'll be as well off as you can be. Your errors will be
your own :-).
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