Re: place for newbie postgresql hackers to work

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, James Buchanan <jamesb(at)northnet(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: place for newbie postgresql hackers to work
Date: 2001-06-07 15:14:50
Message-ID: 200106071514.f57FEod04719@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > I like the idea though. Let the experienced developers
> > identify *legwork* TODO items.
>
> From what I can see - there are none. It took me months of reading the
> PostgreSQL source code before I could muck with it. (And I still just did
> it for fun!) Even the 'basic' stuff like psql and pg_dump modifications
> require a knowledge of how foreign keys are stored...

Good point. Many of the trivial changes spin into difficult territory.
We can suggest items if people ask us.

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