Re: 64-bit API for large object

> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 01:14 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@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.  :-)

Ok, I will do it.
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