Re: information

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Mattia Boccia <ironwallaby(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: information
Date: 2002-10-18 01:39:16
Message-ID: 13408.1034905156@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> FYI, most operating systems limit single files to 2GB or less. As
> such, no table -- and thus no row -- in a Postgres database running on
> that operating system can be larger than 2GB.

Josh, surely you know better than that. PG is not restricted by OS
limitations on individual file size, because it automatically segments
tables into multiple OS files.

regards, tom lane

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