Re: 4 billion record limit?

From: brad <brad(at)kieser(dot)net>
To: Mathieu Arnold <arn_mat(at)club-internet(dot)fr>
Cc: Postgres Users <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 4 billion record limit?
Date: 2000-07-27 09:23:20
Message-ID: 397FFF88.30254BC6@kieser.net
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Mathieu Arnold wrote:

> Chris Bitmead wrote:
> >
>
> > Any complex scheme to solve this seems like a waste of time. In a couple
> > of years when you are likely to be running out, you'll probably be
> > upgrading your computer to a 64bit one with a newer version of postgres,
> > and then the problem will disappear.
>
> that's the kind of thing people said about y2k, isn't it ?
>

I don't want to start a war but I must agree here... I recoil when the
argument is put forward for a "you will never use that up" approach.
The best that I can offer is: Oh yeah? Seen some of the Beowulf clusters
around recently?

>
> --
> Mathieu Arnold

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