Re: information - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: information
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Msg-id web-1790709@davinci.ethosmedia.com
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In response to Re: information  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: information  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom,

> Josh, surely you know better than that.  PG is not restricted by OS
> limitations on individual file size, because it automatically
> segments
> tables into multiple OS files.

Actually, I didn't know.  When did you add that?   Dammit, you
programmer-types keep writing stuff too fast for me to keep up.  <grin>

And what on *earth* would someone store in a 3GB table?   Heck, I don't
think I even have a 3GB *database* in production; the 3million-record
one I use in my column was only a few hundred megabytes.

-Josh Berkus

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