Re: large file limitation

From: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>
Cc: Jeff <jeff(dot)brickley(at)motorola(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: large file limitation
Date: 2002-01-19 01:06:32
Message-ID: 200201190106.g0J16Wd07311@saturn.janwieck.net
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:10:35PM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> > handle files larger than 2GB. I then dumped the database again and
> > noticed the same situation. The dump files truncate at the 2GB limit.
>
> We just had the same happen recently.
>
> > I suppose I need to recompile Postgres now on the system now that it
> > accepts large files.
>
> Yes.

No. PostgreSQL is totally fine with that limit, it will just
segment huge tables into separate files of 1G max each.

Jan

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