Re: 4 billion record limit? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: 4 billion record limit?
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Msg-id 3980EC7D.D49CF7F0@alumni.caltech.edu
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In response to 4 billion record limit?  (Paul Caskey <paul@nmxs.com>)
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> FWIW, I checked into MySQL, and as far as I can tell, they have nothing
> like this implicit 4 billion transactional "limit".  So maybe competitive
> spirit will drive the postgres hackers to fix this problem sooner than
> later.  ;-)

We have *never* had a report of someone pushing this 4GB limit, and
theoretical problems usually go into the long-term development plan, not
in the "OHMYGODITSBROKEN" list.

                       - Thomas

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