Re: [GSoC Idea Discussion] "Thrift datatype support" Project

[Bear Giles]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Vladimir Sitnikov <
sitnikov.vladi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Technically speaking, Thrift is "language-independent"
> serialization-deserialization format with clean approach to backward
> compatibility.
>
> I think Thrift (or something like that) can be useful, as it can generate
> serializers/deserializers for lots of languages.
> PostgreSQL's "binary" format is tied to the PostgreSQL and it has to be
> reimplemented for each and every client language.
>
> "text" format is non-trivial as well (e.g. it is hard to get quoting right
> for structs, and text is server-locale-dependent)
>
> Vladimir
>

​​Thanks. I've been helping a coworker with an older parquet writer and
​the URL for the hive metastore uses a thrift:// scheme. That is why I
thought it is a communications protocol.​

Re: [GSoC Idea Discussion] "Thrift datatype support" Project

[Vladimir Sitnikov]

Technically speaking, Thrift is "language-independent"
serialization-deserialization format with clean approach to backward
compatibility.

I think Thrift (or something like that) can be useful, as it can generate
serializers/deserializers for lots of languages.
PostgreSQL's "binary" format is tied to the PostgreSQL and it has to be
reimplemented for each and every client language.

"text" format is non-trivial as well (e.g. it is hard to get quoting right
for structs, and text is server-locale-dependent)

Vladimir

Re: [GSoC Idea Discussion] "Thrift datatype support" Project

[Bear Giles]

Isn't thrift the communications protocol?

Do we have foreign server support for parquet and ORC files?

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Udit Juneja  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am Udit Juneja, a Computer Science undergraduate student at Thapar
> Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. I am interested in
> contributing to PostgreSQL.
>
> A brief introduction about me:
> I am familiar with programming languages (C, C++, Python, SQL).
>
> I am interested in "Thrift datatype support"  project. I have already
> started exploring PostgreSQL, and the libraries involved in this project.
>
> I would like to discuss the idea further and maybe submit a proposal in
> GSoC later.
>
> Regards,
> Udit Juneja
>

[GSoC Idea Discussion] "Thrift datatype support" Project

[Udit Juneja]

Hi,

I am Udit Juneja, a Computer Science undergraduate student at Thapar
Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. I am interested in
contributing to PostgreSQL.

A brief introduction about me:
I am familiar with programming languages (C, C++, Python, SQL).

I am interested in "Thrift datatype support"  project. I have already
started exploring PostgreSQL, and the libraries involved in this project.

I would like to discuss the idea further and maybe submit a proposal in
GSoC later.

Regards,
Udit Juneja