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

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: 64-bit API for large object
Date
Msg-id 20120822.142043.2117276379711762680.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
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In response to Re: 64-bit API for large object  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
>> 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.

Right. You have already explained that in this:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-09/msg01888.php

> There might well be some local variables in the server's largeobject
> code that would need to be widened, but that's the easiest part of the
> job.
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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