Re: [GSoC]The project summary

Hello Charles,

Thanks for keeping us informed. As you probably already discovered the
email I used previously doesn't work any longer. Please add
afiskon(at)gmail(dot)com to CC instead.

I will take a look tomorrow (it's pretty late in my timezone currently).

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Charles Cui <charles(dot)cui1984(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi mentors and hackers,
>
> The final review is coming. Here is the project summary for the thrift
> plugin work for Postgres database. Please let me know if there are anything
> missing for the final review.
> 1. Implement the thrift binary protocol for both simple data structures
> (e.g., int, double) and complex data structures (e.g., list, map and
> struct) in pg_thrift plugin. The interface is byte based which means user
> need to pass in a byte and can use rich apis to parse out required fields.
> 2. Implement the thrift compact protocol for both simple data structures
> and complex data structures. The interface is also byte based and user can
> use rich apis to parse out fields.
> 3. A set of APIs for both binary protocol and compact protocol to parse
> out fields with kinds of types.
> 4. A customized thrift type (thrift_binary) where user specifies json, but
> stores in the format of byte. This type makes the plugin more user
> friendly, currently we support simple getter on top of this type. There are
> some improvements that can be done in the future to make the type support
> more operations.
> 5. Set up CI to continuously compile for each commit. Currently the plugin
> works in 9.4, 10, and 11.
> 6. A set of unit tests to cover most important use cases(
> https://github.com/charles-cui/pg_thrift/blob/master/sql/pg_thrift.sql)
> 7. A detailed document to showcase how to use this plugin (
> https://github.com/charles-cui/pg_thrift/blob/master/README.md)
> From this document, user knows how to install pg_thrift, how to parse out
> required fields from byte using provided api, how to build index based on
> the thrift bytes by the use of the api, and how to use the customized
> thrift type.
>

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev