# Contributing to Citus

We're happy you want to contribute! You can help us in different ways:

* Open an [issue](https://github.com/citusdata/citus/issues) with
  suggestions for improvements
* Fork this repository and submit a pull request

Before accepting any code contributions we ask that Citus contributors
sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). For an explanation of
why we ask this as well as instructions for how to proceed, see the
[Citus CLA](https://cla.citusdata.com).

### Getting and building

#### Mac

1. Install Xcode
2. Install packages with Homebrew

  ```bash
  brew update
  brew install git postgresql
  ```

3. Get, build, and test the code

  ```bash
  git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git

  cd citus
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  cd src/test/regress
  make check
  ```

#### Debian-based Linux (Ubuntu, Debian)

1. Install build dependencies

  ```bash
  echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" | \
       sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
  wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | \
       sudo apt-key add -
  sudo apt-get update

  sudo apt-get install -y postgresql-server-dev-11 postgresql-11 \
                          libreadline-dev libselinux1-dev libxslt-dev  \
                          libpam0g-dev git flex make libssl-dev    \
                          libicu-dev \
                          libkrb5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev autoconf
  ```

2. Get, build, and test the code

  ```bash
  git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git
  cd citus
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  cd src/test/regress
  make check
  ```

#### Red Hat-based Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora)

1. Find the RPM URL for your repo at [yum.postgresql.org](http://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php)
2. Register its contents with Yum:

  ```bash
  sudo yum install -y <url>
  ```

3. Register EPEL and SCL repositories for your distro.

  On CentOS:

  ```bash
  yum install -y centos-release-scl-rh epel-release
  ```

  On RHEL, see [this RedHat blog post](https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/07/07/yum-install-gcc7-clang/) to install set-up SCL first. Then run:

  ```bash
  yum install -y epel-release
  ```

4. Install build dependencies

  ```bash
  sudo yum update -y
  sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
  sudo yum install -y postgresql11-devel postgresql11-server     \
                      libxml2-devel libxslt-devel openssl-devel  \
                      pam-devel readline-devel git libcurl-devel \
                      llvm5.0 llvm-toolset-7-clang

  git clone https://github.com/citusdata/citus.git
  cd citus
  PG_CONFIG=/usr/pgsql-11/bin/pg_config ./configure
  make
  sudo make install
  cd src/test/regress
  make check
  ```

### Following our coding conventions

CircleCI will automatically reject any PRs which do not follow our coding conventions, it
won't even run tests! The easiest way to ensure your PR adheres to those conventions is
to use the [citus_indent](https://github.com/citusdata/tools/tree/develop/uncrustify)
tool.

  ```bash
  # Ubuntu does have uncrustify in the package manager however it's an older
  # version which doesn't work with our citus-style.cfg file. We require version
  # 0.60 or greater. If your package manager has a more recent version of uncrustify
  # feel free to use that instead of installing from source
  git clone --branch uncrustify-0.60 https://github.com/uncrustify/uncrustify.git
  pushd uncrustify
  ./configure
  sudo make install
  popd

  git clone https://github.com/citusdata/tools.git
  pushd tools/uncrustify
  make install
  popd
  ```

Once you've done that, you can run the `make reindent` command from the top directory to recursively check and
correct the style of any source files in the current directory. Under the hood, `make reindent` will run `citus_indent` and some
other style corrections for you.

### Making SQL changes

Sometimes you need to make change to the SQL that the citus extension runs upon
creations. The way this is done is by changing the last file in
`src/backend/distributed/sql`, or creating it if the last file is from a
published release. If you needed to create a new file, also change the
`default_version` field in `src/backend/distributed/citus.control` to match your
new version. All the files in this directory are run in order based on
their name. See [this page in the Postgres
docs](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/extend-extensions.html) for more
information on how Postgres runs these files.

#### Changing or creating functions

If you need to change any functions defined by Citus. You should check inside
`src/backend/distributed/sql/udfs` to see if there is already a directory for
this function, if not create one. Then change or create the file called
`latest.sql` in that directory to match how it should create the function. This
should be including any DROP (IF EXISTS), COMMENT and REVOKE statements for this
function.

Then copy the `latest.sql` file to `{version}.sql`, where `{version}` is the
version for which this sql change is, e.g. `{9.0-1.sql}`. Now that you've
created this stable snapshot of the function definition for your version you
should use it in your actual sql file, e.g.
`src/backend/distributed/sql/citus--8.3-1--9.0-1.sql`. You do this by using C
style `#include` statements like this:
```
#include "udfs/myudf/9.0-1.sql"
```

#### Other SQL

Any other SQL you can put directly in the main sql file, e.g.
`src/backend/distributed/sql/citus--8.3-1--9.0-1.sql`.