Re: Graph datatype addition

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Misa Simic <misa(dot)simic(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PgHacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Graph datatype addition
Date: 2013-05-09 13:36:59
Message-ID: CAHyXU0yMs_9qr63mA=39h=4TpaUt0zHmYYwKSUzUi2iXt1ZZOA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> Your second drawing didn't really make any sense to me. :(
>>
>> I do think it would be most productive to focus on what the API for dealing
>> with graph data would look like before trying to handle the storage aspect.
>> The storage is potentially dirt-simple, as others have shown. The only
>> challenge would be efficiency, but it's impossible to discuss efficiency
>> without some clue of how the data will be accessed. Frankly, for the first
>> round of this I think it would be best if the storage really was just some
>> raw tables. Once something is available people will start figuring out how
>> to use it, and where the API needs to be improved.
>>
>> --
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Yes,my drawing sucks.heh.
>
> Ok,I agree. I was pretty perked up about efficiency in storage, hence
> started designing.

This is the wrong place to start. A proposed API will help people
understand the use cases you're trying to solve (if any) that are
insufficiently covered by existing paradigms.

merlin

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