On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> We start with a database called Postgres and a schema called Public. > Yet we don't start up with any usable tables. > > I propose we add a single table called Postgres when we Initdb > > CREATE TABLE Postgres (Id Integer, Data Jsonb); > COMMENT ON TABLE Postgres IS 'Single table for quick start usage - > design your database'; > > The purpose of this is to make the database immediately usable. By > including this table in the default initdb it will mean that programs > can rely on the existence of this table and begin working quicker. > > By now, some of you will be doubled over laughing as if this is an > April fool joke. I don't mean it to be at all. > I can propose contrib PostgreNoSQL providing following: 1) Table postgres as you proposed. 2) Functions: get_postgres(id intgeger) returns jsonb, set_postgres(id integer, data jsonb) returns void, search_postgres(query jsonb) returns setof postgres. search_postgres will have semantics of @> jsonb operator 3) Background workers which provides HTTP wrapper over those functions. ------ With best regards, Alexander Korotkov.
