Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From James Mansion
Subject Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?
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Msg-id 49613B3D.1000207@mansionfamily.plus.com
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In response to Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?  ("Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>)
Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> c. Are there any well-known pitfalls/objections which would prevent me from
>>    changing the algorithm to something more efficient (read: IO-bound)?
>>     
>
> copyright licenses and patents
>   
Would it be possible to have a plugin facility?

I guess the most likely candidate is the LZJB mechanism in ZFS which is 
CDDL licensed.

Would that be compatible in contrib, if not in the main source?

James



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