Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

From: Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com>
To: Peter Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk>, Adam Ruth <aruth(at)intercation(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB
Date: 2000-04-18 01:15:58
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20000418091558.0091a210@pop.mecomb.po.my
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At 08:29 PM 17-04-2000 +0100, Peter Mount wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Adam Ruth wrote:
>
>> > I'm using Linux and ext2fs has a 2GB limit on files, and it seems like
>> > 6.5.3 tables are stored as single files, so better not go down that path
>> :).
>>
>> I'm using 6.5.2 and it will split a table among several files, so that's
not
>> a problem. Though I'm not sure how BLOBs are stored since I never use
them.
>
>BLOBS are currently implemented as a table/index pair, so they will split
>at the 1Gb mark as do normal tables.

Oh.. Ah well, maybe with my next version/app then. Where was it mentioned
in the docs? Would like to look at the details.

Thanks,

Link.

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