Re: [HACKERS] Current TODO list

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> ENHANCEMENTS
> ------------
> * Large objects
> * Fix large object mapping scheme, own typeid or reltype(Peter)
> * Allow large text type to use large objects(Peter)
> * not to stuff everything as files in a single directory

Hopefully when my workload eases (mid june ish) I'll be able to tackle
these again in earnest.

> * -delete orphaned large objects(Peter)

As I missed the 6.5beta deadline, I put the solution into contrib/lo

> * -Fix tables >2G, or report error when 2G size reached(Peter)
> (fix lseek()/off_t, mdextend()/RELSEG_SIZE)

This was done (twice if I remember). The tables now split at 1G. This
opened a new problem that vacuum can't handle segmented tables. I have the
general idea of how to fix this, but again it's time that's the problem.

peter

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