Re: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Peter Mount <petermount(at)it(dot)maidstone(dot)gov(dot)uk>
Cc: t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0
Date: 1999-03-17 04:45:35
Message-ID: 199903170445.NAA09312@srapc451.sra.co.jp
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>Just a question. Does your patch let vacuum handle segmented tables?
>--
>Tatsuo Ishii

>It simply reduces the size of each segment from 2Gb to 1Gb. The problem
>was that some OS's (Linux in my case) don't like files exactly 2Gb in
>size. I don't know how vacuum interacts with the storage manager, but in
>theory it should be transparent.

Ok. So we still have following problem:

test=> vacuum smallcat;
NOTICE: Can't truncate multi-segments relation smallcat
VACUUM

Maybe this should be added to TODO if it's not already there.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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