Thus spake Tom Lane
> I'd suggest setting the limit a good deal less than 2Gb to avoid any
> risk of arithmetic overflow. Maybe 200000 8K blocks, instead of 262144.
Why not make it substantially lower by default? Makes it easier to split
a database across spindles. Even better, how about putting extra extents
into different directories like data/base.1, data/base.2, etc? Then as
the database grows you can add drives, move the extents into them and
mount the new drives. The software doesn't even notice the change.
Just a thought.
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