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.cui1...@gmail.com>: > Got it, Aleksander! Will study these documents carefully! > > 2018-02-26 4:21 GMT-08:00 Aleksander Alekseev <a.aleks...@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 >> > >
