Thread: simple utility commands (src/backend/commands)

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Folks,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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font-family:Arial">I would like to understand how the ‘simple’ backend commands work. </span></font><p
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font-family:Arial">After reading the “</span></font>How PostgreSQL Processes a Query”, I was wondering <p
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12.0pt">Which command would be the easiest to begin with? (For a newbie of course.)</span></font><p
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12.0pt">Regards,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">Gevik.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:
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You should look at something like the LOCK table command.  The following areas will help:

src/backend/tcop/utility.c
src/backend/commands/lockcmds.c
src/backend/nodes/*funcs.c
src/backend/parser

-Jonah