Re: 2GB file size limit

I'm pretty sure I remember one of the developers saying that postgres
works around this limit automatically by creating separate tables per
database/table/etc...

in other words it's not a problem. if I'm wrong, someone who knows
correct me.

-philip

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos wrote:

> Hello all,
> I upgraded from kernel 2.2.18 (Slakcware7.1 on x86) to 2.4.4 only to find out that I will still not get LFS due to my glibc2.1.3.
> My question is the following: I know people have reported DBs larger than 2GB, but is there any single file that gets larger than 2GB? Can anyone make an estimate of what overall_DB_size will cause me to hit the 2GB-filesize limit?
> Any ideas how to work around this other than upgrading glibc or changing OS or architecture? Having survived through Slackware evolution, I bet it'll be the last to adopt any changes in the field *sigh*
>
> thanks in advance,
> thalis
>
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