Re: Significantly larger toast tables on 8.4?

james <james@mansionfamily.plus.com>

From: James Mansion <james@mansionfamily.plus.com>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, "Stephen R. van den Berg" <srb@cuci.nl>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Date: 2009-01-04T22:42:05Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> c. Are there any well-known pitfalls/objections which would prevent me from
>>    changing the algorithm to something more efficient (read: IO-bound)?
>>     
>
> copyright licenses and patents
>   
Would it be possible to have a plugin facility?

I guess the most likely candidate is the LZJB mechanism in ZFS which is 
CDDL licensed.

Would that be compatible in contrib, if not in the main source?

James