Re: [HACKERS] "CANNOT EXTEND" - - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] "CANNOT EXTEND" -
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Msg-id 199903180520.AAA24601@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] "CANNOT EXTEND" -  ("Tim Perdue" <perdue@raccoon.com>)
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> The flat files are sitting at 1.9 GB right now (the primary email table).
> 
> So I'm approaching the point where I can't backup using the COPY command.
> 
> I'm probably using the wrong OS for this. But the performance of postgres is
> still dazzling me (some people complain about the performance, but when I
> see it pick 10,000 rows out of 1.4 million, sort them, and return them in a
> second, I'm blown away).

Please see if you can create files over 2 gig.  I believe is it only OS
bugs in dealing with exactly 2gig files that is the problem.

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