RE: place for newbie postgresql hackers to work

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Jan Wieck" <JanWieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: "James Buchanan" <jamesb(at)northnet(dot)com(dot)au>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: place for newbie postgresql hackers to work
Date: 2001-06-07 02:14:13
Message-ID: ECEHIKNFIMMECLEBJFIGGEONCAAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> > Why not start with Thomas Swan's earlier posting?:
>
> Because first, exactly that would require a good concept and
> (at least I expect it to) a fair amount of system catalog
> changes - not the best *newbe* starter.
>
> I like the idea though. Let the experienced developers
> identify *legwork* TODO items.

From what I can see - there are none. It took me months of reading the
PostgreSQL source code before I could muck with it. (And I still just did
it for fun!) Even the 'basic' stuff like psql and pg_dump modifications
require a knowledge of how foreign keys are stored...

Chris

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