On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 01:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 07:27 +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > >> I found this in the TODO list: > >> Add API for 64-bit large object access > >> If this is a still valid TODO item and nobody is working on this, I > >> would like to work in this. > > > 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.
Well then a 64-bit API would be very useful. Go for it. :-) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
