On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:29:13AM -0600, Joseph M. Day wrote:
> Can anyone recemmend a filesystem to use for Postgres. I currently have
> one table that has 80 mil rows, and will take roughly 8GB of space
> without indexing. Obviously EXT3 will die for a file size this large.
From the "Database Physical Storage" chapter in the 8.0 documentation:
When a table or index exceeds 1Gb, it is divided into gigabyte-sized
segments. The first segment's file name is the same as the
filenode; subsequent segments are named filenode.1, filenode.2,
etc. This arrangement avoids problems on platforms that have
file size limitations.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/storage.html
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/