Re: [GENERAL] Is the fix for > 2GB files already in 6.5.3?

From: Peter Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Ron King <rking(at)aignetplex(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Is the fix for > 2GB files already in 6.5.3?
Date: 2000-01-24 22:36:51
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10001242235450.4761-100000@maidast.retep.org.uk
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Ron King wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I want to build a prototype system under 32-bit Linux using
> a table that would be about 20GB with PostgreSQL. I looked
> through the archives and saw talk about a patch for PostgreSQL
> to fix a bug with tables > 2Gb. If the system worked, I would
> like to migrate over to a 64-bit Alpha system and have tables
> > 40GB. Will it work?
>
> Is this patch incorporated into the latest release?

It should be as it went in before 6.5.3. The main fix was to break the
table files into 1Gb blocks.

Peter

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