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Here's the patch to fix a lot of markup errors in the HTML FAQs. Doesn't

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change content (at least not supposed to).

Magnus Hagander
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Bruce Momjian
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Developer's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
Last updated: Wed Jan 5 17:36:58 EST 2005
Last updated: Fri Mar 11 16:43:05 EST 2005
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
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http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/faqs/FAQ_DEV.html.
_________________________________________________________________
General Questions
General Questions
1.1) How do I get involved in PostgreSQL development?
1.2) What development environment is required to develop code?
1.3) What areas need work?
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1.17) Where can I get technical assistance?
1.18) How do I get involved in PostgreSQL web site development?
Technical Questions
Technical Questions
2.1) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the
backend code?
2.2) Why are table, column, type, function, view names sometimes
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General Questions
1.1) How go I get involved in PostgreSQL development?
1.1) How do I get involved in PostgreSQL development?
Download the code and have a look around. See 1.7.
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have misunderstood the TODO item; your approach may benefit from the
review of others.
A web site is maintained for patches that are ready to be applied,
http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches, and those that are
being kept for the next release,
http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches2.
1.5) Where can I learn more about the code?
Other than documentation in the source tree itself, you can find some
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Basic system testing
The easiest way to test your code is to ensure that it builds against
the latest verion of the code and that it does not generate compiler
the latest version of the code and that it does not generate compiler
warnings.
It is worth advised that you pass --enable-cassert to configure. This
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test suite. To do this, issue "make check" in the root directory of
the source tree. If any tests failure, investigate.
If you've deliberately changed existing behaviour, this change may
If you've deliberately changed existing behavior, this change may
cause a regression test failure but not any actual regression. If so,
you should also patch the regression test suite.
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1. A set of patches to make certain portions of the source tree
'behave' in the different environment of the RPMset;
2. The initscript;
3. Any other ancilliary scripts and files;
3. Any other ancillary scripts and files;
4. A README.rpm-dist document that tries to adequately document both
the differences between the RPM build and the WHY of the
differences, as well as useful RPM environment operations (like,
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want to contain the toplevel "pgsql" directory and say
cvs ... checkout pgsql
To get a past branch, you cd to whereever you want it and say
To get a past branch, you cd to wherever you want it and say
cvs ... checkout -r BRANCHNAME pgsql
For example, just a couple days ago I did
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questions about development of new features, on IRC at
irc.freenode.net in the #postgresql channel.
1.18) How go I get involved in PostgreSQL web site development?
1.18) How do I get involved in PostgreSQL web site development?
PostgreSQL website development is discussed on the
pgsql-www@postgresql.org mailing list. The is a project page where the
source code is available at
http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgweb/projdisplay.php , the code
for the next version of the website is under the "portal" module. You
will al so find code for the "techdocs" website if you would like to
will also find code for the "techdocs" website if you would like to
contribute to that. A temporary todo list for current website
development issues is available at http://xzilla.postgresql.org/todo
Technical Questions
Technical Questions
2.1) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the backend code?
You first need to find the tuples(rows) you are interested in. There
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Here are some of the List manipulation commands:
lfirst(i), lfirst_int(i), lfirst_oid(i)
return the data (a point, inteter and OID respectively) at list
return the data (a point, integer and OID respectively) at list
element i.
lnext(i)