Howard Cole wrote:
> On a Win32 machine, can I backup a database if the backup file exceeds
> 2GB? In linux, I can split the backup file into multiple files. Can
> this be done on Win32?
>
> Regards
>
> Howard Cole
> www.selestial.com
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I am not sure, but I thought the max file size on NT and up systems was
4gb, not 2gb. Also newer versions of Linux should not have the 2gb
limitation.(that was a limit imposed on the 2.x kernel)
This of course does not mean that the Postgresql code was ever updated
to allow larger files.
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