Re: How to get more than 2^32 BLOBs

Hi Laurenz,

thank you for your reply.
Are you aware of any performance drawback?

Il giorno mer 8 apr 2020 alle ore 12:06 Laurenz Albe <
laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> ha scritto:

> On Wed, 2020-04-08 at 11:15 +0200, Donato Marrazzo wrote:
> > according this page [1], large object are limited to the OID range of
> 2^32 (since it's a 4 bytes number).
> > I'm working on a use case were there are many tables with blobs (on
> average not so large 32KB).
> > I foresee that in 2-3 years time frame, the limit of overall blobs will
> be breached: more than 2^32 blobs.
> >
> > - Is there a way to change the OID limit?
> > - Should we switch to a bytea implementation?
> > - Are there any drawback of bytea except the maximum space?
>
> Don't use large objects. They are only useful if
> 1) you have files larger than 1GB or
> 2) you need to stream writes
>
> There are no such limitations if you use the "bytea" data type, and it is
> much simpler to handle at the same time.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
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>
>

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