Re: Added PostgreSQL internals learning materials in Developer FAQ

On 11 December 2017 at 14:50, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Tsunakawa, Takayuki
> <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > FYI
> > I collected Web resources to learn PostgreSQL internals in the Developer
> FAQ page. I did this because I need to provide self-education materials
> for new developers. Specifically, I modified "How is the source code
> organized?", and added "What information is available to learn PostgreSQL
> internals?".
> >
> > Developer FAQ
> > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ#
> Development_Tools_and_Help
> >
> >
> > I borrowed most of the information from the following discussion.
> >
>
> Thanks, looks like quite useful information for the new people who
> want to learn about PostgreSQL especially internals.
>
>
While we're talking wiki changes, some folks may be interested in the
recent stuff I added to the profiling with perf page
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Profiling_with_perf on using postgres's
predefined tracepoints, injecting userspace tracepoints, capturing variable
values at tracepoints, etc.

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