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Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Does Storage Manager support >2GB tables?

Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>

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From: "Vadim B. Mikheev" <vadim@sable.krasnoyarsk.su>
To: Chris Albertson <chris@topdog.pas1.logicon.com>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-03-16T08:09:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Chris Albertson wrote:
> 
> I know you must have looked at far more Postgresql code then I have but
> I was browsing the storage manager.  Apparently it is fairly easy to
> assign a class to a manager as each class is tagged in the system catalog
> with a storage method.  What I really want is a >2GB table.  I was trying
> to see if this was supported by reading the source.  Looks like it may be.
> The note in the To Do list includes testing.  I would test it but for
> lack of disk space. (I'll have more in a while.)
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c:

#define RELSEG_SIZE ...

- just decrease it!

Vadim