Re: making relfilenodes 56 bits - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: making relfilenodes 56 bits
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In response to Re: making relfilenodes 56 bits  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 6:02 PM Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> MAX_FORKNUM is way lower right now. And hardcoded. So this doesn't imply a new
> restriction. As we iterate over 0..MAX_FORKNUM in a bunch of places (with
> filesystem access each time), it's not feasible to make that number large.

Yeah. TBH, what I'd really like to do is kill the entire fork system
with fire and replace it with something more scalable, which would
maybe permit the sort of thing Hannu suggests here. With the current
system, forget it.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com



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