Re: community bonding

On 24. 04. 2018 06:22, Charles Cui wrote:
> Hi PostgreSQL community and mentors:
>
> Thanks for selecting my project as one of GSoC student projects!
> Pretty exciting and honor to join the development for PostgreSQL (the
> best database in the world :)). So for the first phase of this project
> (community bonding), I am planning to go ahead to set up my developing
> environment and familiar with the related code bases. And I have
> several questions regarding this.
Welcome!

I'm not a commiter, but I've been looking at Postgres as a side project
for a while now. You'll find that there's a lot to learn.
> 1. What ide or command line tools do you guys used most for PostgreSQL
> development?
I've had most success with Eclipse. Metin Döşlü presented a talk at
PGConf.EU on how to do that, but the slides[1] are not the most verbose,
as he did a live demo. My key takeaway was that you can get the backend
pid with pg_backend_pid() and then attach GDB in Eclipse. There's also a
page on Eclipse on wiki[2].
>   
> 2. What version control do you use for postgres? Is github acceptable?
Postgres uses GIT[3]. Github does host a mirror, however Postgres as a
project uses its own git and uses patch based workflow, which is
described on wiki[4].

> 3. How do you look at code in PostgreSQL code base? do you have cross
> function reference where I can search function and definition online?

There's a doxygen[5] available, but most of that can also be done in
Eclipse.
>
> Also let me know if you have requirements in this phase which are not
> covered by my plan. 
>
> Thanks Charles.

A thing to note is that Postgres mailing lists are not top-post, so
please try not to do that.
Wiki is a great resource.

Kind regards,
Gasper Zejn

[1]
https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2017/sessions/session/1605-hacking-postgresql-with-eclipse/
[2] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Working_with_Eclipse
[3] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/git.html
[4] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
[5] https://doxygen.postgresql.org/