George, * George Papadrosou (gpapadro...@gmail.com) wrote: > Stephen, you mentioned PostGIS, but the conversation seems to lean towards > JSONB. What are your thoughts?
Both are important. I brought up PostGIS specifically because it's an external project which could benefit from this work and to explain that PostgreSQL can be extended to beyond the built-in data types. Focusing on JSONB to start seems alright but keep in mind that we'll want to have a way to let PostGIS do whatever it is we do for JSONB in core. > Also, if I am to include some ideas/approaches in the proposal, it seems I > should really focus on understanding how a specific data type is used, > queried and indexed, which is a lot of exploring for a newcomer in postgres > code. This is true, but, really, the sooner the better. :) While it's not a small amount to go through it's also really pretty clean code, in general, so hopefully you won't have too much trouble. I would recommend jumping on irc.freenode.net to the #postgresql channel where you can find a number of PostgreSQL hacker who are generally quite happy to answer specific questions you may have as you go through the code. > In the meanwhile, I am trying to find how jsonb is indexed and queried. After > I grasp the current situation I will be to think about new approaches. I would suggest you make sure that you first understand how TOAST works generally and review the on-disk storage format before jumping in to try and understand jsonb indexing and queries. Would be good to also understand how the PGLZ compression works. Thanks! Stephen
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