Re: Can PostGreSQL handle 100 user database?

Vivek Khera wrote:
> LO> The 2GB size limits of ia32 come in to play due to byte addressing
> LO> (versus word addressing) in ia32 plus the use of signed single register
> LO> two's-complement integers.
 
> LO> But, as always, I reserve the right to be wrong.
 
> You are wrong.  The file size limit has to do with the data size of
> your file offset pointer.  This is not necessarily a 32 bit quantity
> on a 32-bit processor.

If the file offset pointer is a signed integer, then it holds.  That is
an OS specific issue as to the type of the pointer.
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Lamar Owen
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