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RE: 4 billion record limit?

Andrew Snow <als@fl.net.au>

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From: "Andrew Snow" <als@fl.net.au>
To: "Pgsql-General@Postgresql. Org" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-07-27T10:58:13Z
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!

To go back to my original point about putting things in perspective -
increasing this by 2^32 would give you 68 terabytes of RAM.  But if we can
get rid of oid's altogether then I think that would be best.  (At least we
can make our own 64 bit serial types until they are officially implemented).


- Andrew