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VII. Internals

This part contains assorted information that might be of use to PostgreSQL developers.

Table of Contents
47. Overview of PostgreSQL Internals
47.1. The Path of a Query
47.2. How Connections are Established
47.3. The Parser Stage
47.4. The PostgreSQL Rule System
47.5. Planner/Optimizer
47.6. Executor
48. System Catalogs
48.1. Overview
48.2. pg_aggregate
48.3. pg_am
48.4. pg_amop
48.5. pg_amproc
48.6. pg_attrdef
48.7. pg_attribute
48.8. pg_authid
48.9. pg_auth_members
48.10. pg_cast
48.11. pg_class
48.12. pg_collation
48.13. pg_constraint
48.14. pg_conversion
48.15. pg_database
48.16. pg_db_role_setting
48.17. pg_default_acl
48.18. pg_depend
48.19. pg_description
48.20. pg_enum
48.21. pg_event_trigger
48.22. pg_extension
48.23. pg_foreign_data_wrapper
48.24. pg_foreign_server
48.25. pg_foreign_table
48.26. pg_index
48.27. pg_inherits
48.28. pg_language
48.29. pg_largeobject
48.30. pg_largeobject_metadata
48.31. pg_namespace
48.32. pg_opclass
48.33. pg_operator
48.34. pg_opfamily
48.35. pg_pltemplate
48.36. pg_proc
48.37. pg_range
48.38. pg_rewrite
48.39. pg_replication_slots
48.40. pg_seclabel
48.41. pg_shdepend
48.42. pg_shdescription
48.43. pg_shseclabel
48.44. pg_statistic
48.45. pg_tablespace
48.46. pg_trigger
48.47. pg_ts_config
48.48. pg_ts_config_map
48.49. pg_ts_dict
48.50. pg_ts_parser
48.51. pg_ts_template
48.52. pg_type
48.53. pg_user_mapping
48.54. System Views
48.55. pg_available_extensions
48.56. pg_available_extension_versions
48.57. pg_cursors
48.58. pg_group
48.59. pg_indexes
48.60.