On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:22:56PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> > What would need to happen for the next jump up from where varlena
> > is now, to 8 bytes?
>
> Dealing with upwards-of-4GB blobs as single Datums isn't remotely
> sane, and won't become so in the near (or even medium) future. So I
> don't see the point of doing all the work that would be involved in
> making this go.
OK
> What would make more sense is to redesign the large-object stuff to
> be somewhat modern and featureful, and provide stream-access APIs
> (think lo_read, lo_seek, etc) that allow offsets wider than 32 bits.
Great!
> The main things I think we'd need to consider besides just the
> access API are
>
> - permissions features (more than "none" anyway)
Would ROLEs work, or are you thinking of the per-row and per-column
access controls people sometimes want?
> - better management of orphaned objects (obsoleting vacuumlo)
> - support > 16TB of large objects (maybe partition pg_largeobject?)
> - dump and restore probably need improvement to be practical for such
> large data volumes
That, and the usual upgrade-in-place :)
Cheers,
David.
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