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0 pointsdkarl4y ago0 comments

I second Postgres. Not only is the source code a pleasure to read, there's also an unusual amount of well-presented material about its internals available online.

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atonse4y ago· 2 in thread

this probably correlates to why there is such a rich ecosystem of pg extensions and forks.

datavirtue4y ago

Also explains how Pivotal was able to refactor it into a MPP (Greenplum).

spacemanmatt4y ago

while true, the architecture rather than code hygiene deserves credit for facilitating the ecosystem of extensions and forks. in my husky opinion.

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