Re: GSOC 2018 ideas

Got it, Aleksander! Will study these documents carefully!

2018-02-26 4:21 GMT-08:00 Aleksander Alekseev <a(dot)alekseev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>:

> Hello Charles,
>
> > I saw PostgreSQL is selected in GSOC 2018 and pretty interested in the
> > ideas of thrift data types support that proposed by you. So, I want to
> > prepare for a proposal based on this idea.
>
> Glad you are interested in this project!
>
> > Can I have more detailed information of what documents or code that I
> > need to understand?
>
> I would recommend the following documents and code:
>
> * Source code of pg_protobuf
> https://github.com/afiskon/pg_protobuf
> * "Writing Postgres Extensions" tutorial series by Manuel Kniep
> http://big-elephants.com/2015-10/writing-postgres-extensions-part-i/
> * "So you want to make an extension?" talk by Keith Fiske
> http://slides.keithf4.com/extension_dev/#/
> * Apache Thrift official website
> https://thrift.apache.org/
> * Also a great explanation of the Thrift format can be found in the
> book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann
> http://dataintensive.net/
>
> > Also, if this idea is allocated to other student (or in other worlds,
> > you prefer some student to work on it), do let me know, so that I can
> > pick some other project in PostgreSQL. Any comments or suggestions are
> > welcomed!
>
> To my best knowledge currently there are no other students interested in
> this particular work.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Aleksander Alekseev
>