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From Charles Cui
Subject Re: GSOC 2018 ideas
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Msg-id CA+SXE9smHOA2tWirb7bFPM0p8x_n25r=XJ_7XJCMV6vVcEdk4A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: GSOC 2018 ideas  (Charles Cui <charles.cui1984@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: GSOC 2018 ideas  (Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru>)
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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.cui1984@gmail.com>:
Got it, Aleksander! Will study these documents carefully!

2018-02-26 4:21 GMT-08:00 Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.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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