RFC: Proposal for change in Type System

[amaster507 (Anthony Master)]

We have finally arrived at the se conclusion, lol

See:

@amaster507

• Fix Dgraph’s type system so that the type is not a string value/predicate

http://discuss.dgraph.io/t/how-does-type-system-work/17616?u=amaster507

http://discuss.dgraph.io/t/func-type-error-in-20-11-03-or-later/16237/29?u=amaster507

http://discuss.dgraph.io/t/ask-dgraph-founder-anything/16352/24?u=amaster507

http://discuss.dgraph.io/t/ask-dgraph-founder-anything/16352/28?u=amaster507

@mrjn

If one type has billions of nodes, then instead of using type(X), would be better to retrieve a field which only belongs to that type of node. Then check the existence of that to determine if the type is legit or not.

Here is the main gist of my thoughts:

Ask Dgraph Founder Anything

I have read in detail your other latest blog post: It was so mesmerizing. Your engineering mind is exceptional!! The optimization improvements are terrific for a database that already touts ingestion speeds keeping up with major databases. And then I saw the type problem, and you confirmed the problem with indexes. So, what if, types weren’t indexes, they were edges?? I can hear Chewxy correcting me already, that everything is already an edge, it is turtles all the way do…