How does PostgreSQL actually work?
by
Peter Eisentraut, Member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Core-Team
Funny pre-event tech-trivia: • Trivia: How does PostgreSQL actually ...
A Database Month event http://www.DBMonth.com/database/postgres
From query to disk and back again - this event will be a tour of what actually happens inside PostgreSQL!
We will cover:
• Clients and servers
• libpq API
• Frontend-backend protocol
• Parsing
• Rewriting
• Planning
• Execution
• Function calls
• Storage management
• WAL logging
...and lots more!
Peter Eisentraut, Member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Core-Team
Peter Eisentraut is a member of the core team of the PostgreSQL project and has been a major code contributor to PostgreSQL since 1999. He is also a PostgreSQL developer and consultant at 2ndQuadrant.