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Re: 4 billion record limit?

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

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From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: Paul Caskey <paul@nmxs.com>
Cc: Postgres Users <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-28T02:14:21Z
Lists: pgsql-general, pgsql-novice 
> FWIW, I checked into MySQL, and as far as I can tell, they have nothing
> like this implicit 4 billion transactional "limit".  So maybe competitive
> spirit will drive the postgres hackers to fix this problem sooner than
> later.  ;-)

We have *never* had a report of someone pushing this 4GB limit, and
theoretical problems usually go into the long-term development plan, not
in the "OHMYGODITSBROKEN" list.

                       - Thomas