It'd be great if on completion, you can publish the furnished ERD of the catalog structure, and other representation of the planner, optimizer etc.
Luckys.
On 5/22/06, Bruce Momjian <pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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!
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> Federico Petronio
> petrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Linux User #129974
>
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