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Re: [SQL] So what happens at 2GB?

Brett W. McCoy <bmccoy@lan2wan.com>

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From: "Brett W. McCoy" <bmccoy@lan2wan.com>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>
Cc: Tim Perdue <perdue@raccoon.com>, pgsql-sql@hub.org
Date: 1999-03-13T20:30:43Z
Lists: pgsql-sql 
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Karl Denninger wrote:

> > > No.  It works properly.  I have had tables exceeding 10GB.
> > 
> > How does it get past an operating system limitation on file size?
> > 
> > Brett W. McCoy           
> >                                         http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
> 
> There isn't one on FreeBSD, but Postgres doesn't seem to know that.
> Instead, it breaks the table up into 2G-sized file chunks.

It may do that for performance reasons, I would guess, or for
compatibility with other operating systems that have the limitation (like
Linux).

Brett W. McCoy           
                                        http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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