Yeah that is what seems to be the best way. The thing is that I am looking in the PostgreSQL code for the first time
andI am not fully aware of the data structures or the methods / algos implemented in the project. This makes the work
offinding out whats and whys much more difficult. So I asked it on the list.<br /><br />Thanks anyways for the reply.
<br/><br />-Vaibhav (*_*)<br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Robert Haas <span
dir="ltr"><<ahref="mailto:robertmhaas@gmail.com">robertmhaas@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote
class="gmail_quote"style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left:
1ex;"><divclass="im">On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Vaibhav Kaushal<br /> <<a
href="mailto:vaibhavkaushal123@gmail.com">vaibhavkaushal123@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br /> > I have started with the
workand am using Eclipse and it helps quite a lot.<br /> > I can find the declarations quite easily. Thanks to open
Source.<br/> ><br /> > BTW, I am encountering too many (just too many) data types as I try to<br /> >
understandthe backend (specifically the executor). I do think that its<br /> > normal because the executor has to
consideralmost everything that the other<br /> > parts of the DB can possibly command it to do.<br /> ><br />
>Is there some documentation available on the data types / structures which<br /> > are in use at the backend?<br
/><br/></div>There's less than one might hope. I think you pretty much have to<br /> look through the README files and
sourcecode comments.<br /><font color="#888888"><br /> --<br /> Robert Haas<br /> EnterpriseDB: <a
href="http://www.enterprisedb.com"target="_blank">http://www.enterprisedb.com</a><br /> The Enterprise PostgreSQL
Company<br/></font></blockquote></div><br />