Hi Andrew, Thanks for your response. Sometimes overall software architectures stay (mostly) unchanged for a long time, and so I figured that's possibly the case for Postgresql as well. But I didn't know, which is why I asked.
Kind regards, Christian On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net>wrote: > > On 12/27/2013 10:55 AM, Christian Convey wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I'm starting to poke around the internals of Postgres. Does anyone know >> the extent to which Thomas Lockhart's book, "PostgresSQL Programmer's >> Guide" is accurate with respect to the current state of the code base? >> >> >> > Umm, that book was published in 2000, from what I can see on Amazon. Would > you use a book published 13 years ago to educate yourself on, say, the > Linux code base? 13 years is an eternity in this business. > > cheers > > andrew > >