Thanks for your concerns about my question. I am really happy to get the answers.
@Mr. Tom Lane: Thanks for your explanation but I am already using Eclipse which gets me to the definitions real easy. I do not post my questions on the Hackers forum with any intention to disturb anyone. I just ask for help when I am not able to understand it all. PG is my first attempt at OSS development so it is particularly difficult. Of course PG has great support for us because almost everything has got its comment, elaborating its use / importance. However since I don't know everything yet about PG or even about the OSS development, I come here asking. I have never been in so much of code with so many Data Structures and typedefs. It gets confusing very easily. This is the reason I came here asking. I ask here after I have done my homework; and after I get messed up with the code. Moreover the comments are those of developers. So when someone says that "expression does not match qual" in the code, it is not so clear to me as it might be to you people; because you know the terms, I don't. Thanks for all the support I have been getting here to all of you. I will try to ask as less as possible from now on. @Mr. Dimitri Fontaine: Thanks for telling me the name of the tool. But I like the GUI interfaces more and Eclipse has been serving me well for browsing (only) the source code. I do not fear command line / shell but prefer GUI more. Thanks for your answer. -Vaibhav (*_*) On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Dimitri Fontaine <dimi...@2ndquadrant.fr>wrote: > Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > > Here's my single biggest tip for newcomers to the Postgres source: > > if you don't use ctags, glimpse, or some other tool that can quickly > > show you all references to a given identifier, go out and get one. > > It's one of the easiest ways to learn about things. > > I've been using cscope (out of advice from Joshua Tolley), and even > better its integration into Emacs which is called xcscope.el --- I > wouldn't have been able to come up with the extension patch series > without that. > > http://cscope.sourceforge.net/ > > And as a quick teaser, the keys I mostly use: > > C-c s d cscope-find-global-definition > C-c s s cscope-find-this-symbol > C-c s f cscope-find-this-file > C-c s I cscope-index-files > > Regards, > -- > Dimitri Fontaine > http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support >
