"Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" <thalis@cs.pitt.edu> writes:
> 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?
AFAIK, postgresql will split the tables across multiple files anyway
(Oracles does it, at least) - which is good for backups etc. That you
can create big files doesn't mean you want to.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.