Re: Re: Maximum size of one table - Mailing list pgsql-general

jdassen@cistron.nl (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)) writes:
> Your options to have >2Gb files on GNU/Linux therefore include
> - switching to a 64bit platform, say Alpha, Itanic or PowerPC64 or
> - switching to a recent (>= 2.1) version of the GNU C library and a recent
>   (e.g. 2.4.x) kernel.

However, this is all irrelevant to Jonas' question, which is whether
he needs to worry about it for Postgres.  He doesn't.  PG splits large
tables into gigabyte-sized chunks to avoid OS file size limitations.

            regards, tom lane