crankshaft/CONTRIBUTING.md
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# Development process
Please read the Working Process/Quickstart Guide in README.md first.
For any modification of crankshaft, such as adding new features,
refactoring or bug-fixing, topic branch must be created out of the `develop`
branch and be used for the development process.
Modifications are done inside `src/pg/sql` and `src/py/crankshaft`.
Take into account:
* Tests must be added for any new functionality
(inside `src/pg/test`, `src/py/crankshaft/test`) as well as to
detect any bugs that are being fixed.
* Add or modify the corresponding documentation files in the `doc` folder.
Since we expect to have highly technical functions here, an extense
background explanation would be of great help to users of this extension.
* Convention: snake case(i.e. `snake_case` and not `CamelCase`)
shall be used for all function names.
Prefix function names intended for public use with `cdb_`
and private functions (to be used only internally inside
the extension) with `_cdb_`.
Once the code is ready to be tested, update the local development installation
with `sudo make install`.
This will update the 'dev' version of the extension in `src/pg/` and
make it available to PostgreSQL.
It will also install the python package (crankshaft) in a virtual
environment `env/dev`.
The version number of the Python package, defined in
`src/pg/crankshaft/setup.py` will be overridden when
the package is released and always match the extension version number,
but for development it shall be kept as '0.0.0'.
Run the tests with `make test`.
To use the python extension for custom tests, activate the virtual
environment with:
```
source envs/dev/bin/activate
```
Update extension in a working database with:
* `ALTER EXTENSION crankshaft VERSION TO 'current';`
`ALTER EXTENSION crankshaft VERSION TO 'dev';`
Note: we keep the current development version install as 'dev' always;
we update through the 'current' alias to allow changing the extension
contents but not the version identifier. This will fail if the
changes involve incompatible function changes such as a different
return type; in that case the offending function (or the whole extension)
should be dropped manually before the update.
If the extension has not previously been installed in a database,
it can be installed directly with:
* `CREATE EXTENSION crankshaft WITH VERSION 'dev';`
Note: the development extension uses the development python virtual
environment automatically.
Before proceeding to the release process peer code reviewing of the code is
a must.
Once the feature or bugfix is completed and all the tests are passing
a Pull-Request shall be created on the topic branch, reviewed by a peer
and then merged back into the `develop` branch when all CI tests pass.
When the changes in the `develop` branch are to be released in a new
version of the extension, a PR must be created on the `develop` branch.
The release manage will take hold of the PR at this moment to proceed
to the release process for a new revision of the extension.
## Relevant development tasks available in the Makefile
```
* `make help` show a short description of the available targets
* `sudo make install` will generate the extension scripts for the development
version ('dev'/'current') and install the python package into the
development virtual environment `envs/dev`.
Intended for use by developers.
* `make test` will run the tests for the installed development extension.
Intended for use by developers.
```