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Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007)

by mulander on 4/10/20, 10:45 PM with 12 comments

• by parhamn on 4/11/20, 1:22 AM

  It's a shame you can't easily add an extensions to most hosted postgres solutions. I hacked on the postgres ltree extension [1] recently, and was amazed at how easy it is to extend functionality of the database, add new types/operators/etc. I think if they were a bit more accessible we'd see them much more. You can even write them in go [2]

  [1] https://github.com/postgres/postgres/tree/master/contrib/ltr...

  [2] https://github.com/microo8/plgo

• by ddlutz on 4/11/20, 1:03 AM

  There's an edX MOOC of a similar title that people here may also may be interested in: https://www.edx.org/course/hacking-postgresql-data-access-me...

• by ghayes on 4/11/20, 12:56 AM

  From my limited experience diving into the Postgres source code, it's really a treat. Everything is very clearly written and documented. It's pretty easy to read the source code to get an understanding of how components of Postgres work under the hood.

• by intrd on 4/11/20, 12:45 AM

  What a gem, thank u :)

• by robolange on 4/10/20, 11:11 PM

  Interesting, but shouldn't this be labeled 2007?