Re: [HACKERS] tables > 1 gig

Bruce Momjian  writes:
>> Then we'd better fix the underlying problem.  We can't change
>> RELSEG_SIZE for a minor release, unless you want to give up the
>> principle of not forcing initdb at minor releases.

> Why can't we increase it?

Consider a 1.5-gig table.  6.5 will store it as one gig in file "table",
one-half gig in file "table.1".  Now recompile with larger RELSEG_SIZE.
The file manager will now expect to find all blocks of the relation in
file "table", and will never go to "table.1" at all.  Presto, you lost
a bunch of data.

Bottom line is just as it says in the config.h comments: you can't
change either BLCKSZ or RELSEG_SIZE without doing initdb.
		regards, tom lane