On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Sam Mason<sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:03:37AM +0100, Greg Stark wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Sam Mason<sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk> wrote:
>> > There would be no way of creating a row 1.6TB in size in one go
>....
> I was thinking of a single update per column.
Oh, my bad, you did indeed say "row" and I assumed column. Yes, you
could create a single row of 1.6TB by doing repeated updates setting
one column at a time to a 1G datum. (You would have to be using 32k
blocks though)
--
greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf