Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Does Storage Manager support >2GB tables?

From: "Vadim B(dot) Mikheev" <vadim(at)sable(dot)krasnoyarsk(dot)su>
To: Chris Albertson <chris(at)topdog(dot)pas1(dot)logicon(dot)com>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] Does Storage Manager support >2GB tables?
Date: 1998-03-16 08:09:07
Message-ID: 350CDE23.6D219D91@sable.krasnoyarsk.su
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Chris Albertson wrote:
>
> I know you must have looked at far more Postgresql code then I have but
> I was browsing the storage manager. Apparently it is fairly easy to
> assign a class to a manager as each class is tagged in the system catalog
> with a storage method. What I really want is a >2GB table. I was trying
> to see if this was supported by reading the source. Looks like it may be.
> The note in the To Do list includes testing. I would test it but for
> lack of disk space. (I'll have more in a while.)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

src/backend/storage/smgr/md.c:

#define RELSEG_SIZE ...

- just decrease it!

Vadim

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