Index the PostgreSQL source code with Elixir

1 · Jan Nidzwetzki · Jan. 11, 2024, midnight
While working with the internals of PostgreSQL, it is helpful to be able to navigate around the source code quickly and look up symbols and definitions fast. I use VS Studio code for programming. However, finding definitions does not always work reliably, and the full-text search is slow and often returns many results and not the desired hot (e.g., a definition of a function). For a long time, I had the Doxygen build of PostgreSQL open in my browser. However, Doxygen is sometimes cumbersome to u...