[xwiki-devs] [VOTE] Change the attachment archive storage

[Vincent Massol]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> As detailed in another mail
> (http://lists.xwiki.org/pipermail/devs/2008-February/005344.html), the
> current attachment archive mechanism is very inefficient. We should
> write a new one, which stores attachment versions as plain binary  
> data,
> and see if the current core is pluggable enough to allow the old
> mechanism to be preserved as a plugin, and possibly define other  
> storage
> mechanisms, like a filesystem based one.
>
> Artem, do you think you can help, as this is something related to what
> you've been working on?

My only worry is that last time we changed the database format we  
spent several months stabilizing it... since there were lots of  
problems. I'm not even sure we've finished stabilizing it fully...

So is there any chance that this would be simpler? :)

Thanks
-Vincent