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 >
