Re: [BUGS] Problem with duplicate file.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:43:14PM -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> I don't see anything in this that's a bug report, so I'm redirecting to
> -general.
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, [utf-8] abremond(at)voila(dot)fr wrote:
>
> > I work with a database PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on Linux.
> >
> > I observe that the size of my database is bigger and when I verify the
> > size for each file on the database directory, I remark that one of
> > this files (16404) is duplicate in two files : 16404.1 and 16404.2.
> > Moreover, the files 16404 and 16404.1 have the same size (1 Giga)
> > I don't understand why the file (16404) is duplicate in two another
> > files 16404.1 and 16404.2.
> > I don't undertand this architecture. Could you give me an explication ?
>
> IIRC, some systems have trouble with large files, PostgreSQL breaks the
> data for tables at one gigabyte boundaries. So 16404 is the first gig,
> 16404.1 is the second, etc...

Correct, It just means the table exceeded 2GB.

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