Thanks for that info... any documentation on how it does that?  Is there
something tunable to this?  Lets say our table is called 'tablename', will
it just start a new file called 'tablename_2', or something like that?  Is
there something that tells it that it is reaching the 2G limit, or does it
just start a new one when it fails?

Thanks, Charlie Crissman


Charlie Crissman
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.  
That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their
shoes.

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Larry Rosenman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent:   Thursday, November 09, 2000 7:22 AM
To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:        Re: [ADMIN] large classes (tables)

* Charlie Crissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001109 06:16]:
> Since we are limited to a 2G file size on unix, is that the practical
limit
> to the size of a class (table) in PostgreSQL?  Is it possible for a class
> (table) to use more than one file?
> 
> 2G is not a very big table in reality.
No, PostgreSQL will split the tables up and use multiple filesystem
files. 


> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> Charlie Crissman
> Sr. Oracle DBA
> Oracle Certified Professional DBA
> No Boundaries Network, Inc.
> 904-245-6839
> Pager 904-840-3684
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.  
> That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their
> shoes.

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