Re: Stefan Simkovics' paper and pgsql version 8.1

sql.sgml just seems to be an intro to sql/relational. The Simkovics
paper is absolutely perfect for someone like me who wants to try some
experiments but can't commit too much time! Does any one think time
is ripe for an update to the paper??? ;) Actually I always wanted a
whole book on postgresql's internals. There are several books on the
internals of Linux, why not postgresql? At the minimum more colleges
students will be forced to go through it by their professors :)

On 8/6/05, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> > Interestingly, the paper is mentioned in the bibliography of the
> > official PostgreSQL documentation. Apparently there's a good primer on
> > relational theory, SQL and PostgreSQL history.
>
> Most of that material is still in the source tree, though it seems it's
> not being built into the official docs at the moment --- see
> doc/src/sgml/sql.sgml
>
> As a guide to hacking the backend, though, I wouldn't recommend it.
> It's too outdated, and IIRC we had to rip out and redo large parts
> of the original INTERSECT/EXCEPT patch.
>
> regards, tom lane
>