Re: 2GB file size limit - Mailing list pgsql-general

From teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Subject Re: 2GB file size limit
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Msg-id xuyn186dtj6.fsf@halden.devel.redhat.com
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In response to Re: 2GB file size limit  (GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net>)
Responses Re: 2GB file size limit  (GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net>)
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GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net> writes:

> PostgreSQL works around the (ah hem) silly limits of  the (silly?)
> Linux kernel.

As he wrote, it isn't a limit of the Linux kernel - it's a limit of
his glibc. FTR, there are also patches for the 2.2 kernel to handle
large files - our 6.2 Enterprise Edition shipped with that.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.

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