From: | Chris Albertson <calbertson(at)logicon(dot)com> |
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To: | norbert(dot)meissner(at)str(dot)daimler-benz(dot)com |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, HENAFF Mari-mai FTRD/DMI/LAN <marimai(dot)henaff(at)rd(dot)francetelecom(dot)fr>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: table size limit under Linux |
Date: | 2000-05-31 17:57:46 |
Message-ID: | 3935529A.A4CB0435@logicon.com |
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Norbert Meissner wrote:
>
> > > How do you go beyond 2gigs on a single file on ext2fs (like
> > > the major linux distributions delivering) ? magic?
> >
> > Split the files into 1 gig segments.
> >
>
> Excuse my dumb questions, but is this a capability of linux or postgresql ?
> Can you point me to a location where i can read more ?
In Postgresql this is done inside the storage manager. The code is
acrually quite simple amd not hard to read.
The limit now is the OID. This is a 32-bit integer and OIDs are
unique within a database not just a table. (Someone please correct me
if I am wrong) So you can have only 4 giga-rows in a database. Our
project may bump into this limit in a few years but by then maybe
Postgresql will allow 64 bit OIDs
>
> Thanks in advance
> Norbert
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