Re: GSoC 2017

2017-02-08 17:06 GMT+01:00 Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Ruben Buchatskiy <ruben(at)ispras(dot)ru> wrote:
> > 2017-01-10 12:53 GMT+03:00 Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru
> >:
> >> 1. What project ideas we have?
> >
> > We would like to propose a project on rewriting PostgreSQL executor from
> >
> > traditional Volcano-style [1] to so-called push-based architecture as
> > implemented in
> >
> > Hyper [2][3] and VitesseDB [4]. The idea is to reverse the direction of
> data
> > flow
> >
> > control: instead of pulling up tuples one-by-one with ExecProcNode(), we
> > suggest
> >
> > pushing them from below to top until blocking operator (e.g.
> Aggregation) is
> >
> > encountered. There’s a good example and more detailed explanation for
> this
> > approach in [2].
>
> I think this very possibly a good idea but extremely unlikely to be
> something that a college student or graduate student can complete in
> one summer. More like an existing expert developer and a year of
> doing not much else.
>

+1

Pavel

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