Re: pgsql: Introduce jsonb, a structured format for storing json.

On 03/24/2014 01:01 AM, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Alexander Korotkov is an author of hash_ops ! I think he should be
> granted. I wrote "Alexander Korotkov introduced an elegant hash
> opclass for GIN, which competes with MongoDB performance in contains
> operator".
>
> Oleg
>
> PS.
> Actually, it happened in Dublin, in the night before our
> presentation. I was a bit upset to learn that MongoDB index performs
> better than our GIN and was thinking in the background, what to say in
> presentation. I and Alexander decided to walk in seaside, where I got
> hashing idea, which Alexander also thought about. He quickly
> implemented in the hotel, while we were waiting our food (at night !)
> and first experiments shown the better than MongoDB performance !
> After several rounds the code was accepted by Teodor and now is
> shining in jsonb.
>
>

Oops. Apologies to Alexander - I should have listed him as an author.
We'll make sure he gets credit in the release notes.

cheers

andrew