Thanks, good news.
I'm also pleased to know that the file size limit has been removed with LFS
on Linux 2.4 and I'll give it a try.
/Jonas L.
"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in message
news:25370.984585704@sss.pgh.pa.us...
> jdassen@cistron.nl (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)) writes:
> > Your options to have >2Gb files on GNU/Linux therefore include
> > - switching to a 64bit platform, say Alpha, Itanic or PowerPC64 or
> > - switching to a recent (>= 2.1) version of the GNU C library and a
recent
> > (e.g. 2.4.x) kernel.
>
> However, this is all irrelevant to Jonas' question, which is whether
> he needs to worry about it for Postgres. He doesn't. PG splits large
> tables into gigabyte-sized chunks to avoid OS file size limitations.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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