Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From reina_ga@hotmail.com (Tony Reina)
Subject Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?
Date
Msg-id 272e4be7.0404042344.229c7475@posting.google.com
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In response to Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?  (Bradley Kieser <brad@kieser.net>)
Responses Re: Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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scott.marlowe@ihs.com ("scott.marlowe") wrote in message
news:<Pine.LNX.4.33.0404020911420.32237-100000@css120.ihs.com>...
> For quite some time.  I believe the max table size of 32 TB was in effect
> as far back as 6.5 or so.  It's not some new thing.  Now, the 8k row
> barrier was broken with 7.1.  I personally found the 8k row size barrier
> to be a bigger problem back then.  And 7.1 broke that in 2001, almost
> exactly four years ago.  6.5 came out in 1999-06-09, so the limit to table
> sizes was gone a very long time ago.
>

The PostgreSQL limitations on the users' page
(http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/limitations.html) still says
that tables are limited to 16 TB, not 32 TB.

Perhaps it should be updated?

-Tony

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