<story><title>The internals of PostgreSQL</title><url>http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>elvinyung</author><text>A really cool paper to read is &lt;i&gt;The Design of POSTGRES&lt;/i&gt; [1] by Stonebraker et al. It&amp;#x27;s dated by its mentions of things like POSTQUEL, but it&amp;#x27;s still really interesting to read about the early design of seminal features like the extensible ADT system, from a time when it was still innovative.&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;db.cs.berkeley.edu&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;ERL-M85-95.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;db.cs.berkeley.edu&amp;#x2F;papers&amp;#x2F;ERL-M85-95.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The internals of PostgreSQL</title><url>http://www.interdb.jp/pg/index.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crudbug</author><text>I have been reading about Postgres architecture. The modular design enables - microkernel-like API where different languages can be integrated seamlessly.&lt;p&gt;The only thing, I am missing are incremental materialized views.</text></comment>