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Re:The Internals of PostgreSQL by stickfigure on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:37PM (#30091419)
Agreed. At my university, in my era (almost 30 years ago), the compilers sequence was two full quarters and generally considered to be the hardest classes in the CSc major. I really loved it but it would have been a huge distraction mixed in with the DB classes.

Those compilers classes turned out to be pretty useful. I ended up having to build custom parsers several times in my career... including an SQL parser.

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Re:The Internals of PostgreSQL by jjice on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:51PM (#30091621)
I actually took my university's compiler course at the same time as this DB course, and that was my favorite class out of all four years, hands down. Honestly, the parsing portion of my DB class was helped out by the knowledge I got from the compiler class earlier in the semester, so at least it worked out!
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Re:The Internals of PostgreSQL by dtech on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:59PM (#30092574)
to be pair those compilers course should cover much more than parsing. Iirc correctly it was like 10% of the course at my time.
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