Re: [GSoC Idea Discussion] "Thrift datatype support" Project

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Vladimir Sitnikov <
sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Technically speaking, Thrift is "language-independent"
> serialization-deserialization format with clean approach to backward
> compatibility.
>
> I think Thrift (or something like that) can be useful, as it can generate
> serializers/deserializers for lots of languages.
> PostgreSQL's "binary" format is tied to the PostgreSQL and it has to be
> reimplemented for each and every client language.
>
> "text" format is non-trivial as well (e.g. it is hard to get quoting right
> for structs, and text is server-locale-dependent)
>
> Vladimir
>

​​Thanks. I've been helping a coworker with an older parquet writer and
​the URL for the hive metastore uses a thrift:// scheme. That is why I
thought it is a communications protocol.​