Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Vincent Massol wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
>>> 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.
+1

>>> Artem, do you think you can help, as this is something related to what
>>> you've been working on?
Yes. I think i can help.
Attachment archive store is similar to old document archive store. But i 
  didn't touch it.

>> 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? :)
>
> It should be simpler, as attachments are just binary blobs, while the 
> XML history is much too fragile.
I think too.

-- 
   Artem Melentyev
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