Re: Some advanced database features, are they present in PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Mount
Subject Re: Some advanced database features, are they present in PostgreSQL
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0010101759560.8388-100000@maidast.demon.co.uk
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In response to Some advanced database features, are they present in PostgreSQL  (Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>)
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:

>    - ability to have databases bigger than the host's maximum file size

This has been in there since the old postgres days (although we did find
it have a problem with Linux and files exactly 2Gig). PostgreSQL now
splits tables at the 1Gb level, so tables are only really limited to the
disk size, not the file size (normally 2^32 bytes = 2Gig)

Peter

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