Re: Wanting to learn about pgsql design decision

From: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tal Walter <talw(at)sqreamtech(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Wanting to learn about pgsql design decision
Date: 2016-08-03 15:27:28
Message-ID: CACjxUsOxfN_enCEHDf3RSxq2iXeqbExC2178VDaDY6=TD04k3g@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Tal Walter <talw(at)sqreamtech(dot)com> wrote:

> I'd appreciate if you could help me understand how I can research the
> answers to these type of questions by myself.

> Could I perhaps search the commit
> comments somehow? Or perhaps a different approach to suggest?

In addition to Tom's suggestions about how to review commit
comments -- if you look in the source code directories for README
files, you will find they often contain discussions of such
matters. If you are up for it, the C code for implementing
features also often discusses alternatives and why they were not
chosen.

--
Kevin Grittner
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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