Re: Protocol buffer support for Postgres

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.