| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | rhkelly <rhkelly(at)myrealbox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: stupid question |
| Date: | 2004-01-01 20:32:57 |
| Message-ID: | 202.1072989177@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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rhkelly <rhkelly(at)myrealbox(dot)com> writes:
> I was simply inquiring about what I consider to be an indispensible
> element of documentation for *any* application - i.e., the content
> and format of the files in which the application stores the data.
[ Raises eyebrow... ] I'm not aware of any complex application in which
file format details are considered an indispensable part of the user-level
documentation. Do Word, Photoshop, Outlook, etc provide that info?
Where you want to be looking is at the developer docs, eg
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/page.html
and at the source code --- probably
src/include/storage/bufpage.h
src/include/access/htup.h
are good starting points.
regards, tom lane
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