Re: On How To Shorten the Steep Learning Curve Towards PG Hacking...

Thanks Alvaro for taking your time and pointing me to "Developer_FAQ". I
knew this web page and there is good stuff int it.
The most important about "Developer_FAQ" which I believe is that it lists
vital books for PG developers.

Comparing the real challenge I am facing in finding my way in the rabbit
role(the PG source code), "Developer_FAQ" is indeed less useful.

Of course, I am a beginner and I am just beginning and one day I hope with
your support I will figure out to find my space in PG development.

My question is why is that there is a lot of hands-on about PG application
development(eg. connecting to PG using JAVA/JDBC) but almost nothing about
PG hacking hands-on lessons. For example, I wanna add the keyword
"Encrypted" in CREATE TABLE t1(a int, b int encrypted) or CREATE TABLE t1(a
int, b int) encrypted. Alas, its not easy task.

Regards,
Zeray

On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> > Personally I have to agree that the learning curve is very steep. Some
> > of the docs and presentations help, but there's a LOT to understand.
>
> There is a wiki page "Developer_FAQ" which is supposed to help answer
> these questions. It is currently not very useful, because people
> stopped adding to it very early and is now mostly unmaintained, but
> I'm sure it could become a very useful central resource for this kind of
> information.
>
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