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