Re: beginning hackers

Rosser Schwarz wrote:

>while you weren't looking, Tom Lane wrote:
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>[indexes spanning multiple tables]
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>>Wouldn't recommend it as a project for a beginning backend hacker;
>>the locking considerations alone are a bit daunting.
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>That being the case, is there a list anywhere of open/wish list/TODO
>items that are suitable for beginning pg hackers?  I've been over the
>TODO list and found myself fairly daunted by what I see, but would
>still like to take a stab at contributing.
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A couple of nice visible projects on the TODO list that might be 
suitable for beginners:

. Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
. Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type

But actually, the best place to start is possibly doing cleanups.

For example, gcc version 4 generates LOTS of compiler warnings. They 
need clearing up. Doing that might lead to yuo look at quite a lot of 
interesting code, which in turn might lead to more projects.

Plus there are always tests and docs to write ;-)

cheers

andrew