// Hacker Noon · 30 April 2026

A Long Story About How I Dug Into the PostgreSQL Source Code to Write my Own WAL Receiver

A developer’s curiosity about pg_receivewal turns into building a PostgreSQL WAL receiver, backup system, and deeper respect for C and database internals.

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