Re: Re: Maximum size of one table

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jdassen(at)cistron(dot)nl (J(dot)H(dot)M(dot) Dassen (Ray))
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Maximum size of one table
Date: 2001-03-14 16:01:44
Message-ID: 25370.984585704@sss.pgh.pa.us
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jdassen(at)cistron(dot)nl (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)) writes:
> Your options to have >2Gb files on GNU/Linux therefore include
> - switching to a 64bit platform, say Alpha, Itanic or PowerPC64 or
> - switching to a recent (>= 2.1) version of the GNU C library and a recent
> (e.g. 2.4.x) kernel.

However, this is all irrelevant to Jonas' question, which is whether
he needs to worry about it for Postgres. He doesn't. PG splits large
tables into gigabyte-sized chunks to avoid OS file size limitations.

regards, tom lane

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