Re: Linux Filesystem for PG

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:55:52AM -0600, Joseph M. Day wrote:
> > From the "Database Physical Storage" chapter in the 8.0 documentation:
> >
> > When a table or index exceeds 1Gb, it is divided into gigabyte-sized
> > segments. The first segment's file name is the same as the
> > filenode; subsequent segments are named filenode.1, filenode.2,
> > etc. This arrangement avoids problems on platforms that have
> > file size limitations.
>
> Is this a recent change? I have an old system loaded with Redhat 8.0 and
> PG v7.2. Unless my memory fails me, it died trying to load the data into
> the table.

The 7.2 source code appears to have this logic; I don't know if
there are any problems with it. "It died" doesn't mean much --
a load could have failed for a number of reasons, so without
the error message it's impossible to know what happened.

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Michael Fuhr
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