Re: 4 billion record limit?

Bradley Kieser <brad@kieser.net>

From: Bradley Kieser <brad@kieser.net>
To: "Prasanth A. Kumar" <kumar1@home.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-07-27T10:05:36Z
Lists: pgsql-general, pgsql-novice
My mistake! ;-)
I remember wondering who would ever need more that the 16K that the Sinclair Spectrum could give you!


Quoting "Prasanth A. Kumar" <kumar1@home.com>:

> brad <brad@kieser.net> writes:
>
> <snip>
> > Simply waiting for 64bit numbers is rather inelegant and also presumes
> usage
> > parameters for the database... remember Bill Gates saying that he
> couldn't
> > foresee any usage for more than 64MB of RAM? Besides which, PostgreSQL is
> the
> > best DB around... there's a high standard to maintain!
> <snip>
>
> Actually, he was purported to have said that nobody would need more
> that 640KB or ram, which was the limit of memory on MSDOS. Brings back
> memories... remember having to juggle the drivers on bootup to plays
> that game which wanted nearly all of the base memory but you still
> needed the mouse, soundcard and cdrom access? ;-)
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> kumar1@home.com
> 



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