Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Lincoln Yeoh
Subject Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB
Date
Msg-id 3.0.5.32.20000418091558.0091a210@pop.mecomb.po.my
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In response to Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB  ("Adam Ruth" <aruth@intercation.com>)
Responses Re: To BLOB Or Not To BLOB  (Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>)
List pgsql-general
At 08:29 PM 17-04-2000 +0100, Peter Mount wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Adam Ruth wrote:
>
>> > I'm using Linux and ext2fs has a 2GB limit on files, and it seems like
>> > 6.5.3 tables are stored as single files, so better not go down that path
>> :).
>>
>> I'm using 6.5.2 and it will split a table among several files, so that's
not
>> a problem.  Though I'm not sure how BLOBs are stored since I never use
them.
>
>BLOBS are currently implemented as a table/index pair, so they will split
>at the 1Gb mark as do normal tables.

Oh.. Ah well, maybe with my next version/app then. Where was it mentioned
in the docs? Would like to look at the details.

Thanks,

Link.



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