I'm a student in Informatics Engineering and I'm working at my thesis, for which I have to integrate one or more primitives in PostgreSQL in order to support data mining algorithms; this task firstly requires a deep analysis on the PostgreSQL optimizer (the way it works and its source code).
Does anybody know where I can find some documentation about the PostgreSQL optimizer?
I've read some old messages (1997) about an "Implementation Guide" but the related link seems to be obsolete ("page not found")...