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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 onlin
by dkarl 5y ago
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.
- atonse 5y agothis probably correlates to why there is such a rich ecosystem of pg extensions and forks.
- spacemanmatt 5y agowhile true, the architecture rather than code hygiene deserves credit for facilitating the ecosystem of extensions and forks. in my husky opinion.
- datavirtue 5y agoAlso explains how Pivotal was able to refactor it into a MPP (Greenplum).