| From: | Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)slingshot(dot)co(dot)nz> |
|---|---|
| To: | Ralph Graulich <maillist(at)shauny(dot)de> |
| Cc: | "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Linux Largefile Support In Postgresql RPMS |
| Date: | 2002-08-10 05:25:25 |
| Message-ID: | 3D54A3C5.90802@slingshot.co.nz |
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Ralph Graulich wrote:
>Hi,
>
>just my two cents worth: I like having the files sized in a way I can
>handle them easily with any UNIX tool on nearly any system. No matter
>wether I want to cp, tar, dump, dd, cat or gzip the file: Just keep it at
>a maximum size below any limits, handy for handling.
>
Good point... however I was thinking that being able to dump the entire
database without resporting to "gzips and splits" was handy...
>
>For example, Oracle suggests it somewhere in their documentation, to keep
>datafiles at a reasonable size, e.g. 1 GB. Seems right to me, never had
>any problems with it.
>
Yep, fixed or controlled sizes for data files is great... I was thinking
about databases rather than data files (altho I may not have made that
clear in my mail)
best wishes
Mark
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