Re: Max file size

scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, mauricio wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>I'm evaluating some DB and one of the things i'd like to know is the
>>maximum size of a file that postgres can handle with. cause i'm planning
>>to have a centalized database the must have some billion records.
>
>
> In it's default configuration Postgresql autosplits table at approximately
> 1 gigabyte. Therefore, it has no built in limit to table size.
>
> If you have an OS that can handle larger files, you can compile postgresql
> to use larger file sizes. I have seen no great improvement in speed in
> using one large file for a table over splitting at 1Gig.

Hrm. This all ought to be dependent on record size and operating
system limits on the number of file descriptors, shouldn't it?

Greg

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