Re: Google Summer Of Code 2017 & PostgreSQL

On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 07:54:51PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I am very pleased to be able to announce that the PostgreSQL project has
> been approved for 4 GSoC projects this year!

Thanks for the hard work!

Google's process has gotten a lot more rigorous over the years, and in
under-appreciated consequence, people who would rather be doing other
things on projects get to shoulder that burden.

> The four projects are:
>
> - Add errors handling and parallel execution to COPY
>
> Student: Alexey Kondratov
> Mentors: Anastasia Lubennikova, Alexander Korotkov, Alvaro Herrera
>
> - Eliminate O(N^2) scaling from rw-conflict tracking in serializable
> transactions
>
> Student: Mengxing Liu
> Mentors: Alvaro Herrera, Kevin Grittner
>
> - Explicitly support predicate locks in index AMs besides btree
>
> Student: Shubham Barai
> Mentors: Andrey Borodin, Kevin Grittner
>
> - Foreign Keys for Array Elements
>
> Student: Mark Rofail
> Mentors: Alexander Korotkov, Stephen Frost, Alvaro Herrera

Good luck to all, and welcome to Alexey, Menxing, Shubham, and Mark!

Best,
David.
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