From: | Peter Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk> |
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To: | Adam Ruth <aruth(at)intercation(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB |
Date: | 2000-04-17 19:29:06 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.10.10004172028160.6375-100000@maidast.retep.org.uk |
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Adam Ruth wrote:
> > I'm using Linux and ext2fs has a 2GB limit on files, and it seems like
> > 6.5.3 tables are stored as single files, so better not go down that path
> :).
>
> I'm using 6.5.2 and it will split a table among several files, so that's not
> a problem. Though I'm not sure how BLOBs are stored since I never use them.
BLOBS are currently implemented as a table/index pair, so they will split
at the 1Gb mark as do normal tables.
Peter
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