Re: 64-bit API for large object - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: 64-bit API for large object
Date
Msg-id 1345636941.21724.1.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: 64-bit API for large object  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: 64-bit API for large object
List pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 01:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 07:27 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> >> I found this in the TODO list:
> >> Add API for 64-bit large object access 
> >> If this is a still valid TODO item and nobody is working on this, I
> >> would like to work in this.
> 
> > Large objects are limited to 2 GB in size, so a 64-bit API doesn't sound
> > very useful to me at the moment.
> 
> Not entirely.  pg_largeobject.pageno is int32, but that's still 2G pages
> not bytes, so there's three or so orders of magnitude that could be
> gotten by expanding the client-side API before we'd have to change the
> server's on-disk representation.

Well then a 64-bit API would be very useful.  Go for it.  :-)





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