Re: Re: [HACKERS] 8Ko limitation

From: Jason Earl <jdearl(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: [HACKERS] 8Ko limitation
Date: 2000-07-20 21:19:56
Message-ID: 20000720211956.18528.qmail@web112.yahoomail.com
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Actually PostgreSQL gets around the file size limits
on some systems by breaking tables into 1 Gig chunks.

Your colleague was right, but the guys on the
PostgreSQL development team worked around that
particular hurdle a long time ago.

Jason

--- Erich <hh(at)cyberpass(dot)net> wrote:
> > Even on Linux? I'm studying a database project
> where the raw data is 10 to 20
> > Gb (it will be in several tables in the same
> database). Linux has a limit of 2
> > Gb for a file (even on 64-bits machine, if I'm
> correct). A colleague told me
>
> Quoi?
>
> On my RedHat6.2 system:
>
> /dev/md0 14111856 257828 13137168
> 2% /raid
>
> > to use NetBSD instead, because PostgreSQL on a
> Linux machine cannot host more
> > than 2 Gb per database. Any practical experience?
> (I'm not interested in "It
> > should work".)
>
> For a heavy-duty server, I would probably pick
> OpenBSD over Linux, but
> both will work fine, and both can have filesystems
> far larger than
> 2gb.
>
> e

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