Please read the developer's FAQ on our web site. In fact the entire developers section will help you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Federico Petronio wrote: > Hello all, > > as part of an University assignment, a group friends and I have to > research in PostgreSQL internals (i.e. parsing, optimizing, execution > planning, etc) and compare it with other DBMS (an educational oriented > one called MiniBase). I would like to know is you can point us to a > place where we can find that kind of information. > > We need to understand how the parser, the optimizer, the execution > planner works and the go to the source code and find where and how each > functionality is implemented. We need also to understand the structure > of the catalog (and make an ERD for it) and how PostgreSQL use it during > queries. We will also appreciate any link to detailed explanation of the > source code. > > We don?t know if this kind of information if available online, or if > there are books out there about it, So any help would be very appreciated. > > Thank you! > -- > > Federico Petronio > petrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Linux User #129974 > > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq > -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
