Hello all,<br /><br />May be this is notneeded, but I thought I could just introduce myself to the list and why am I
here.<br/><br />My name is Vaibhav Kaushal, a good leaner and a really bad student. I bunk classes, don't attend exams
andlove to develop. I just completed my engineering course in Information science but with a few subjects still on the
list.I am not much of a developer yet but understand the basics. I use both Windows and Linux; Linux being my more
preferredOS. <br /><br />I was trying to develop a small web application and selected MySQL because "you know its the
mostpopular OSS DB on the Internet" and has a more friendly name (although almost crappy ways of work with awkward SQL
syntax,no foreign key support by default and rules allowing silent ignores on the commands, specially the 'check'
rule).But then I thought I could look for options; and I got postgresql and i had to change the whole architecture of
theapplication! It is just too much feature packed and powerful and fast enough considering what it does.<br /><br />I
amhere to learn how it works (it has become my favorite DB almost instantly), and how to make it work even better. I do
notunderstand everything what the documents say but I want to know. So if anyone can,<b> please show me the way, at
leastto the terms which you people use when developing</b>.<br /><br />I want to change a few things in the inner core
ofit. May be my additions would be beneficial to the community. But for that I need to start. Also, I think its time I
moveon to the development section of the 9 series of the DB. Am I right? I am new here and need some guidance. I would
firstlike to know what it does (<b>what happens from the moment I hit enter on PSQL after a command to the results
beingdisplayed</b>) and where are the functions located in the source tree. <br /><br />Thanks a lot.<br />Vaibhav
(*_*)<br/>