Are you referring to JSONB here? On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Sergi Vladykin <sergi.vlady...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys, specially Alexey G. > > I've attended PostgreSQL conference and there was a talk about unstructured > data format. > They had an interesting idea of serialized layout close enough to ours, I'm > not sure how much this is different from our approach and if we can use > some ideas from it but anywaus it looks really promising to me and I want > to share. > > The structure basically is the following: > > [key headers] [keys] [values] > > Key headers are [key offset, key length] so they are of a fixed length. > > The cool idea here is that keys and respectively the key headers sorted by > (key length, key) so that you can do a lookup first by fast picking key of > the needed length without looking at keys at all and then pick an exact > key. Both searches can be done with fast scan if there are small number of > keys and binary search for a larger number of keys. > > Alexey G., could you please compare this to our new marshalling approach > you are about to merge? > BTW, it would be nice if you will describe it in details here. > > Sergi > -- Regards, Atri *l'apprenant*
