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This section is the map for the rest of the book. The five stages introduced in the 1.1 chapter overview (parse, analyze/rewrite, plan, portal, execute) are traced here through the actual code: which functions implement each stage, and in what order they get called. The mechanics of each of the five stages are unpacked in later chapters. Here, only the skeleton matters: how a backend starts up, ho
PostgreSQL Internals · Chapter 1 Query Processing Suppose a client sends SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = 1. The path that single line travels before coming back as a result row is longer than you might expect. Inside the PostgreSQL backend, that SQL goes through a five-stage pipeline. Backend entry and dispatch. The backend receives the message from the client and decides which processing path it s
A Haystack pipeline can be perfectly wired and still unsafe. The retriever returns documents. Every component did its job. But if untrusted text moved through the pipeline as ordinary context, the trust boundary was lost. That is the problem this post is about. Not bad Python. A valid component connection only says: this value fits the next component It does not say: this value is safe to influen
Comparison: Haystack 2.0 vs. RAGatouille 0.3 for Building High-Accuracy RAG Pipelines for Developer Docs Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the standard for building LLM-powered tools that answer questions using private or domain-specific data. For developer documentation (dev docs) — which includes technical jargon, versioned APIs, code snippets, and structured reference material —