I apologize for my skepticism of 15 minutes ago. I finally _read_ http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Table_size.html carefully, and indeed your suggestion is dead on.
thank you again. On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 14:19, Paul DuBois wrote: > At 12:48 -0400 7/26/04, Michael Dykman wrote: > >I am using a development build of 4.1.3 (the last 4.1.3 release I think; > >mysql-4.1.3-beta-nightly-20040628) so I suppose I have this coming, but > >here goes: > > > >As I am running on RH Enterprise Server 3 with a Pentium Xeon (32-bit) > >According to the documentation, for a 32 bit processor, I should be able > >to grow data files to 16G on a 32 bit system, assuming the OS supports > >it. I am using the ext3 file system which should support at least 2TB. > >However, I had all insertions to one table grind suddenly to a halt when > >the data grew to 4294967292 bytes (2^32-2). > > > >Has anyone else encountered this or have any practical advice on how to > >transcend this limitation? > > Are you using MyISAM tables? If so, you probably want to specify > MAX_ROWS and/or AVG_ROW_LENGTH table options when you create the tables > so that larger internal row pointers get used: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/CREATE_TABLE.html > > For existing tables, you can use ALTER TABLE to change the option values. -- - michael dykman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
