Are there resources of similar quality available for MySQL / MariaDB internals ?
Great to see these sorts of things, Postgres has been amazing and glad people realise it.
TimescaleDB and Citus are notable too.
But yeah, if you’re building a DB product, starting with Postgres and customizing from there seems like an excellent approach.
What would be an ideal resume for someone who never worked on Postgres
This is an interesting inclusion, would they be referring to copies of this book being sold on Amazon? Or usage in their documentation? I'm genuinely curious what the issue is with them...
> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies.
This series of deep articles about Postgres index types looks like it's by the same authors, and is one of the few sources I've found that really goes into the data structures used:
https://habr.com/en/company/postgrespro/blog/441962/
I expect those articles will turn into chapters in this book.
I would love to know where to send bugs (a convenient place may be a repo in their GH org (https://github.com/postgrespro), to potentially avoid duplicate reports)
I'll nudge our team about an open mirror, but meanwhile you can contact us at edu@postgrespro.ru. Bug reports on what's already out there will be very helpful to further improve both this part and what is yet to come.
