Re: 4 billion record limit?

Bradley Kieser <brad@kieser.net>

From: brad <brad@kieser.net>
To: Mathieu Arnold <arn_mat@club-internet.fr>
Cc: Postgres Users <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-27T09:23:20Z
Lists: pgsql-general, pgsql-novice
Mathieu Arnold wrote:

> Chris Bitmead wrote:
> >
>
> > Any complex scheme to solve this seems like a waste of time. In a couple
> > of years when you are likely to be running out, you'll probably be
> > upgrading your computer to a 64bit one with a newer version of postgres,
> > and then the problem will disappear.
>
> that's the kind of thing people said about y2k, isn't it ?
>

I don't want to start a war but I must agree here... I recoil when the
argument is put forward for a "you will never use that up" approach.
The best that I can offer is: Oh yeah? Seen some of the Beowulf clusters
around recently?


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> Mathieu Arnold