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

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Vincent Massol wrote:
> 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
> 

It should be simpler, as attachments are just binary blobs, while the 
XML history is much too fragile.
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
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