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by 0x37 3726 days ago
Interesting stuff, I've recently got interested in databases and did some toy programming related to them, trying to understand how they work.

I just wish the author had gone closer to the nitty gritty details of _how_ the data is actually fetched from the disk. How does Postgres store the data? What do the data files look like, how is the parsing done?

In any case I appreciate the effort. I guess I might have to dive into the source code myself.

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There's some docs about this in the docs. c.f. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/interactive/storage.htm...