Re: [HACKERS] GSOC - TOAST'ing in slices

2017-03-16 Thread Stephen Frost
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

Re: [HACKERS] GSOC - TOAST'ing in slices

2017-03-16 Thread George Papadrosou
Hello all, thank you for your replies. I agree with Alexander Korotkov that it is important to have a quality patch at the end of the summer. Stephen, you mentioned PostGIS, but the conversation seems to lean towards JSONB. What are your thoughts? Also, if I am to include some ideas/approac

Re: [HACKERS] GSOC - TOAST'ing in slices

2017-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:03 PM, George Papadrosou > wrote: >> The project’s idea is implement different slicing approaches according to >> the value’s datatype. For example a text field could be split upon character >> boundaries while a JSON document would be split in a w

Re: [HACKERS] GSOC - TOAST'ing in slices

2017-03-15 Thread Alexander Korotkov
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:03 AM, George Papadrosou wrote: > *Deliverables * > > - Implement “semantic” slicing for datatypes that support slicing into > TOAST tables. These datatypes will be the Text, Array, JSON/JSONb and XML > data types. > That looks too much comprehensive GSoC project for m

Re: [HACKERS] GSOC - TOAST'ing in slices

2017-03-15 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:03 PM, George Papadrosou wrote: > The project’s idea is implement different slicing approaches according to > the value’s datatype. For example a text field could be split upon character > boundaries while a JSON document would be split in a way that allows fast > access

Re: [HACKERS] GSOC - TOAST'ing in slices

2017-03-14 Thread George Papadrosou
Hello! Thank you for your message. I was just about to send this email when I got yours. > I don't recall seeing an email from you about this yet? My apologies if > I missed it My apologies for the inconvenience, I wish I could start earlier with this but there was so much coursework reachin