Paris Code Sprint 2016 : PostGIS Agenda

Discussion and group review topics for the [Paris Code Sprint 2016].

Discussion

 * Clustering functions: Aggregate or Window?
 * What naming convention
 * What to do with the existing aggregate functions
 * Expanded object headers, introduction and testing
 * How they work
 * Potential advantages, disadvantages
 * Discussion on clean implementation possibilities
 * Testing and benchmarks, is it worth it?
 * Alternate storage formats, beyond GSERIALIZED
 * Reasoning
 * How to add (version flags?)
 * Multiple co-existing formats?
 * Breaking raster out as postgis_raster extension
 * Implications / difficulties
 * GEOS improvements that would help PostGIS
 * PostgreSQL improvements that would help PostGIS
 * Parallel query, review experiments, plan and execute more
 * Feed back parallel query results to pgsql-hackers

Tasks

 * Benchmarking of expanded object headers test branch
 * Benchmarking of parallel query and parallel aggregate work from pgsql-hackers