Re: [ADMIN] Database/table limits ??????

[Ross J. Reedstrom]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > I understand OID is signed integer which go up to  2^31.
> > Almost any case it would be sufficient. (It's sufficient for me, at least)
> > 
> > What I really want to know is the same as original poster.
> > 
> > > > 8. Can a database be spread over more than one disk drive?
> 
> Yes, by creating symbolic links for the files in data/base/dbname.

Or for a larger, more general problem, using some sort of RAID solution
for the data/base/dbname directory. Under linux, the md (multidisk)
drivers provide a software RAID solution (BSD has it's own solution,
I understand). 

Ross
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