Re: Protocol buffer support for Postgres

From: José Luis Tallón <jltallon(at)adv-solutions(dot)net>
To: 陈天舟 <tianzhouchen(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Protocol buffer support for Postgres
Date: 2016-04-26 11:23:11
Message-ID: 571F4F9F.508@adv-solutions.net
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On 04/26/2016 08:06 AM, 陈天舟 wrote:
> I am interested in adding Protocol Buffer support for Postgres.
> Protocol Buffer occupies less space than JSON. More importantly, it
> has schema and is forward/backward compatible. All these make it a
> very good format for persistency.

Have you investigated JSONB vs ProtoBuf space usage ?
(the key being the "B" -- Postgres' own binary JSON implementation)

The "per-column schema" thing sounds difficult to do without major
changes to the core unless/until we have generalized user-defined
metadata for objects ....

Just my .02€

/ J.L.

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