From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199808060527.BAA25883@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Large objects names
In-Reply-To: <199808060353.XAA16595@candle.pha.pa.us> from Bruce Momjian at
	"Aug 5, 1998 11:53:58 pm"
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 01:27:53 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-development),
	pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org (PostgreSQL-interfaces)
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> Currently, large objects are stored internally as xinv### and xinx###.
> 
> I would like to rename this for 6.4 to be _lobject_### to prevent
> namespace collisions, and make them clearer for administrators.
> 
> However, this may cause problems for backward compatability for large
> object users.  As I see there are going to be other new large object
> things in 6.4, it may not be an issue.
> 
> Is is OK to rename them internally?

I will probably keep the current names for a few releases.  Once
interfaces start using the relkind field to identify them, rather than
the xinv* naming, I will be able to change the names to anything else
and no external interface will care.

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