Re: 2GB file size limit

From: GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net>
To: Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg(at)redhat(dot)com>
Cc: "Thalis A(dot) Kalfigopoulos" <thalis(at)cs(dot)pitt(dot)edu>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 2GB file size limit
Date: 2001-05-22 03:56:18
Message-ID: 20010521225618.A98058@over-yonder.net
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On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 10:09:01PM -0400, some SMTP stream spewed forth:
> GH <grasshacker(at)over-yonder(dot)net> writes:
>
> > PostgreSQL works around the (ah hem) silly limits of the (silly?)
> > Linux kernel.
>
> As he wrote, it isn't a limit of the Linux kernel - it's a limit of
> his glibc. FTR, there are also patches for the 2.2 kernel to handle
> large files - our 6.2 Enterprise Edition shipped with that.
>

So I read.
Foot in mouth.
I apologize.

gh

> --
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.

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