Re: Large objects in one table patch

> Now that we have TOAST, I wonder if we should just build large objects
> on top of that, rather than have all large objects in one file.

Here the question is in speed. What will be faster? But I better would rely on Jan's opinion about this.

BTW, I ported a patch to the current CVS... And it does not work... Will need
some time to figure out what's wrong.

> > Hello all,
> >
> > As promised.
> > Here is the patch for large objects in one table.
> > There's new system  table pg_largeobject.
> > create table pg_largeobject (
> >   loid Oid,
> >   pageno int4,
> >   data bytea
> > );
> >
> > It has 2 indices: on (loid) and on (loid,pageno). (Is it neccessary to
> > have both? Can I search on the second one for loid only?)
> >
> > BLOB is divided by virtual pages, which is maximum tuple size - some
> > internal data. Access to the data is based on pageno, which is similar
> > block number on FS.
> >
> > I am not sure that it is optimized and have no memory/resource leaks.
> > Could please someone better familiar with postgres review the patch.
> >
> > It perfectly works with my database.
> >
> > Patch is against the latest CVS.
> >
> > --
> > Sincerely Yours,
> > Denis Perchine
> >
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> [ Attachment, skipping... ]

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Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine

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