| From: | Karl Denninger <karl(at)Denninger(dot)Net> |
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| To: | "Brett W(dot) McCoy" <bmccoy(at)lan2wan(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tim Perdue <perdue(at)raccoon(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [SQL] So what happens at 2GB? |
| Date: | 1999-03-13 20:17:39 |
| Message-ID: | 19990313141739.A905@Denninger.Net |
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On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 01:11:23PM -0500, Brett W. McCoy wrote:
> On Fri, 12 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.
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