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

From Andrew Snow
Subject RE: 4 billion record limit?
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In response to Re: 4 billion record limit?  (Bradley Kieser <brad@kieser.net>)
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> My mistake! ;-)
> I remember wondering who would ever need more that the 16K that
> the Sinclair Spectrum could give you!

To go back to my original point about putting things in perspective -
increasing this by 2^32 would give you 68 terabytes of RAM.  But if we can
get rid of oid's altogether then I think that would be best.  (At least we
can make our own 64 bit serial types until they are officially implemented).


- Andrew



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