Re: Large objects oids - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Large objects oids
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Msg-id 22473.1213124303@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Large objects oids  (David Wall <d.wall@computer.org>)
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David Wall <d.wall@computer.org> writes:
> Since large objects use OIDs, does PG 8.3 have a limit of 4 billion
> large objects across all of my various tables

Yup, and in practice you'd better have a lot less than that or assigning
a new OID might take a long time.

> (actually, I presume OIDs
> are used elsewhere besides just large objects)?

They are, but this isn't relevant to large objects.  The uniqueness
requirement is only per-catalog.

> Is there any plan on allowing large objects to support more than 2GB?

No, it's not on the radar screen really.

            regards, tom lane

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