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I am hoping to be part of that "Next Generation"---although I'm already 46. I'm sure there are others a bit younger.

My last talk at PGCon tried to fill some of the gaps around what you must know to hack on Postgres, especially the Executor Phase and TupleTableSlots. I'm not the most qualified, but sometimes it takes a learner to know what learners need. Just the other day I wrote a table of contents for a book about how to contribute to Postgres. I figure it would sell at least ten copies. Maybe a serial publication online would be better. Curious if anyone would be interested in either of those?

For now Postgres is more like a hobby for me, but if someone is hiring to do open source Postgres contributions full time, I'm open to a chat. ;-)

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Just coming to say hi Paul! I recall you being very excited and getting the email after you submitted your first patch and loved it.

I think a ton of the current set of "next generation" came to Postgres a good bit later. Even Tom himself will tell you he did some stuff with images for a few years which undersells himself (tiff, jpg, png - in some form involved in creation of each of those), then found this Postgres thing and started working on it.

Craig, you really made me feel welcome in the Postgres community. Maybe people have. It's such an amazing group. Thanks for all the pg advocacy you've done!

If you haven't already, you might be interested in reaching out to PG contributor Andrey Borodin.

He does a lot of content focused around how to get started contributing to Postgres and is very friendly + interested in speaking with other PG enthusiasts.

He might be open to collaboration or offering some helpful advice =)

For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rihfAnd_leM

You can reach him either via email (x4mmm@<repeat-the-previous>.ru) or Twitter (@x4mmmmmm)

Thank you!

Thanks. This looks great!

I’ve met a bunch of top engineers that kept working into their 70s and beyond because they couldn’t do the cool stuff at home. I’m very excited to see if more people may begin to retire earlier & get involved with open source now that participation is more broadly accessible.

I get the impression that publishing the work in progress online can be a good way to market the book, eg https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

Some publishers allow early-access readers to help with reporting mistakes https://nostarch.com/early-access-program

+1 I'll buy your book. What's it called?

Thank you! It's just a table of contents. :-) And there is a book about temporal data I want to write first. . . . But it's awesome to hear someone is interested.

EDIT: to plug a couple other independent-author Postgres books on my short-term reading list, these look awesome (but not quite the same focus):

- https://postgrespro.com/community/books/internals

- https://theartofpostgresql.com/

I would be happy to have a look at your book drafts.

Thank you! May I keep you in mind once I have something? My email is in my profile, so maybe send me a note. (I don't see yours.)

I sent you a note and added my email to my profile. Best of luck with the writing.

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