Re: GSOC 2018 ideas

Hi Aleksander,

Went through the documents listed by you, and they are helpful!
It seems the main purpose of extension pg_protobuf is to parse
a protobuf struct and return the decoded field. May I ask how these kinds
of extensions are used in postgreSQL (or in other words, the scenarios to
use these plugins)?

Thanks Charles!

2018-03-02 21:11 GMT-08:00 Charles Cui <charles(dot)cui1984(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> 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
>>
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