On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Arseny Sher <sher-...@ispras.ru> wrote:
> > While I admire your fearlessness, I think the chances of you being > > able to bring a project of this type to a successful conclusion are > > remote. Here is what I said about this topic previously: > > > > http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa=kzHJ+TwxyQ+vKu21nk3prkRjSdbhjubN7qvc8UKuG > g...@mail.gmail.com > > Well, as I said, I don't pretend that I will support full functionality: > >> instead, we should decide which part of this work (if any) is > >> going to be done in the course of GSoC. Probably, all TPC-H queries > >> with and without index support is a good initial target, but this > >> needs to be discussed. > > I think that successfull completion of this project should be a clear > and justified answer to the question "Is this idea is good enough to > work on merging it into the master?", not the production-ready patches > themselves. Nevertheless, of course project success criterion must be > reasonably formalized -- e.g. implement nodes X with features Y, etc. > How many GSoC slots and possible students we have ? Should we reject this interesting project, which based on several years of research work of academician group in the institute ? May be better help him to reformulate the scope of project and let him work ? I don't know exactly if the results of GSoC project should be committed , but as a research project it's certainly would be useful for the community. > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers >
