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

From Tatsuo Ishii
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0
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Msg-id 199903170445.NAA09312@srapc451.sra.co.jp
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In response to RE: [HACKERS] Problems with >2GB tables on Linux 2.0  (Peter Mount <petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk>)
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>Just a question. Does your patch let vacuum handle segmented tables?
>--
>Tatsuo Ishii

>It simply reduces the size of each segment from 2Gb to 1Gb. The problem
>was that some OS's (Linux in my case) don't like files exactly 2Gb in
>size. I don't know how vacuum interacts with the storage manager, but in
>theory it should be transparent.

Ok. So we still have following problem:

test=> vacuum smallcat;
NOTICE:  Can't truncate multi-segments relation smallcat
VACUUM

Maybe this should be added to TODO if it's not already there.
--
Tatsuo Ishii


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