PostgreSQL Internals
Hi,
I'm a student of computer science from Asunción, Paraguay and I need to do
an investigation about file layout, file organization, organization of
records in files, storage access, access methods, indexing and hashing of
PostgreSQL database.
I searched widely in the Internet but I didn't find much. I also looked at
the documentation at the web site with same results.
Where can I find such information? I hope you can help me find what I
looking for.
Regards,
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Germán Hüttemann Arza
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an investigation about file layout, file organization, organization of
records in files, storage access, access methods, indexing and hashing of
PostgreSQL database.
I searched widely in the Internet but I didn't find much. I also looked at
the documentation at the web site with same results.
Start with the "internals" section of the SGML docs:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/internals.html
After you've absorbed whatever seems useful to you there,
start reading the source code. In particular there are a lot
of README files scattered through the source tree that go into
more detail than the SGML docs, and we also make an effort to have
well-commented source code.
regards, tom lane