You don't need large files. Postgres will use multiple
files for large tables.
"OIDs" are 32-bit integers. You can "only" have 2^^32
records in your database. This is a hard limit last I
checked. Don't know of anyone hitting it yet. I may
in a couple years but am not close yet.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos [mailto:thalis@cs.pitt.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:31 PM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] 2GB file size limit
>
>
> Hello all,
> I upgraded from kernel 2.2.18 (Slakcware7.1 on x86) to
> 2.4.4 only to find out that I will still not get LFS due to
> my glibc2.1.3.
> My question is the following: I know people have
> reported DBs larger than 2GB, but is there any single file
> that gets larger than 2GB? Can anyone make an estimate of
> what overall_DB_size will cause me to hit the 2GB-filesize limit?
> Any ideas how to work around this other than upgrading
> glibc or changing OS or architecture? Having survived through
> Slackware evolution, I bet it'll be the last to adopt any
> changes in the field *sigh*
>
> thanks in advance,
> thalis
>
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