Re: Storage for multiple variable-length attributes in a single row

2022-02-07 Thread Esteban Zimanyi
Dear David There are two approaches for storing temporal information in a relational database, explored since the 1980s following the work of Richard Snodgrass http://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/publications.html tuple-timestamping vs attribute-timestamping. The SQL standard used the tuple-timestamp

Re: Storage for multiple variable-length attributes in a single row

2022-02-07 Thread Julien Rouhaud
On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 10:10:53AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 9:58 AM Esteban Zimanyi > wrote: > > > > > As suggested by David, this goes beyond the "traditional" usage of > > PostgreSQL. Therefore my questions are > > * What is the suggested strategy to splitting th

Re: Storage for multiple variable-length attributes in a single row

2022-02-07 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 9:58 AM Esteban Zimanyi wrote: > > As suggested by David, this goes beyond the "traditional" usage of > PostgreSQL. Therefore my questions are > * What is the suggested strategy to splitting these 2K attributes into > vertically partitioned tables where the tables are linke

Re: Storage for multiple variable-length attributes in a single row

2022-02-07 Thread Esteban Zimanyi
Many thanks for your prompt reply David. Allow me then to restate the questions, hoping that this better fits this mailing list. MobilityDB is a time-series extension to PostgreSQL/PostGIS in which time-varying attributes (e.g., gear, GPS location of a car) are semantically grouped into "units" (e

Re: Storage for multiple variable-length attributes in a single row

2022-02-07 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 8:44 AM Esteban Zimanyi wrote: > May I kindly ask your insight about a question I posted 1 month ago and > for which I never received any answer ? > -hackers really isn't the correct place for usage questions like this - even if you are creating a custom type (why you are

Re: Storage for multiple variable-length attributes in a single row

2022-02-07 Thread Esteban Zimanyi
Dear all May I kindly ask your insight about a question I posted 1 month ago and for which I never received any answer ? Many thanks On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 4:05 PM Esteban Zimanyi wrote: > Dear all > > When ingesting mobility (IoT) data into MobilityDB > https://mobilitydb.com/ > we transform

Storage for multiple variable-length attributes in a single row

2022-01-06 Thread Esteban Zimanyi
Dear all When ingesting mobility (IoT) data into MobilityDB https://mobilitydb.com/ we transform very wide (2K attributes) car mobility data of high frequence (every tenth of a second) from flat format (e.g. CSV) into MobilityDB format in which there is a single record per trip and each of the sig