Re: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0
Date
Msg-id 199902080309.WAA02050@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to RE: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0  (Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0
Re: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0
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> > mcrl3_1_partnumber_index
> > 
> > And it works fine.. I did some selects on data that should have ended up
> > in the .1 file, and it works great.  The best thing about it, is that it
> > seems at least as fast as MSSQL on the same data, if not faster..
> 
> This is what I got when I tested it using a reduced file size. It's what
> made me decide to reduce the size by 1 in the patch I posted earlier.
> 
> However, I'm using John's suggestion of reducing the file size a lot more,
> to ensure we don't hit any math errors, etc. So the max file size is about
> 1.6Gb.

I can imagine people finding that strange.  It it really needed.  Is
there some math that could overflow with a larger value?


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