Re: Tom Lane

Chris <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> Tom, the following was said in the apache turbine project mailing list a
> while back regarding telling the difference between an ordinary oid
> column and an oid column that points to a large object. Can you confirm
> if this is true regarding the reference to change in v 7.1 ?

> Tom Lane from the pgsql team told me that in v 7.1 there will be a way
> to identify the difference between a binary column and an oid column."

I don't recall saying any such thing, sorry (at least not as far as the
backend is concerned --- the particular issue you are quoting seemed to
be just an ODBC driver question).

There already is a solution of sorts in contrib/lo, if you care to use
it.  I seem to recall speculating that it'd be a good idea to move that
into the mainstream, but nothing's been done about it.

I think we are mostly waiting to see how much usage of LOs remains after
people get comfortable with TOAST --- it may be that improving the LO
facilities beyond where they are will just be gilding a dead lily.

I do plan to check over and commit Denis Perchine's fix to store large
objects in a single table, instead of two files per LO (see patches list
for 6/27/00).  That should solve our existing performance problems with
thousands of LOs, and since he already did the work it'd be silly not to
include it.  Beyond that I'm in wait-and-see mode for more LO work.
        regards, tom lane