Re: 2GB file size limit

From: teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=)
To: GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net>
Cc: "Thalis A(dot) Kalfigopoulos" <thalis(at)cs(dot)pitt(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 2GB file size limit
Date: 2001-05-22 02:09:01
Message-ID: xuyn186dtj6.fsf@halden.devel.redhat.com
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GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net> writes:

> PostgreSQL works around the (ah hem) silly limits of the (silly?)
> Linux kernel.

As he wrote, it isn't a limit of the Linux kernel - it's a limit of
his glibc. FTR, there are also patches for the 2.2 kernel to handle
large files - our 6.2 Enterprise Edition shipped with that.

--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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