Re: GSOC Introduction / Eliminate O(N^2) scaling from rw-conflict tracking in serializable transactions

George,

* George Papadrosou (gpapadrosou(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> my name is George Papadrosou, this is my first semester as graduate student at Georgia Tech and would like to submit a proposal to Google Summer of Code, for the project "Eliminate O(N^2) scaling from rw-conflict tracking in serializable transactions”.

Fantastic! I'll let Kevin comment on your questions regarding that
project.

> Until then, I would like to familiarize myself a bit with the codebase and fix some bug/todo. I didn’t find many [E] marked tasks in the todo list so the task I was thinking is "\s without arguments (display history) fails with libedit, doesn't use pager either - psql \s not working on OSX”. However, it works on my OSX El Capitan laptop with Postgres 9.4.4. Would you suggest some other starter task?

One of the best things which you can do to start learning the PostgreSQL
code base is to review existing patches which have been proposed for
inclusion. Now is a great time to be doing that as the feature freeze
for the next version of PostgreSQL (PG v10) is at the end of the month
and there's a ton of patches which need reviewing.

The patches which need reviewing can be seen here:

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/

There's lots of information on our wiki and other places about
developing PostgreSQL, you can start here:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Development_information

and in particular:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/So,_you_want_to_be_a_developer%3F

We look forward to working with you! Welcome!

Thanks!

Stephen