* Charlie Crissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001109 06:29]:
> 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?
>
I believe previous discussions go into details. I believe it splits
at the 1G mark, but one of the -hackers guys will have to answer for
sure.
LER
> Thanks, Charlie Crissman
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Rosenman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 7:22 AM
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> 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
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