Re: [HACKERS] "CANNOT EXTEND" -

It won't be long for me until that happens. Not long at all. Considering
I've amassed 2.2 GB in just 3-4 weeks....

I'm really surprised to see that Linux has such a lame file limitation. I
think even the macintosh can handle single files in the terabyte range now.

Tim


-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
Cc: perdue@raccoon.com <perdue@raccoon.com>; pgsql-hackers@hub.org
<pgsql-hackers@hub.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] "CANNOT EXTEND" -


>> > pg_dump only dumps a flat unix file.  That can be any size your OS
>> > supports.  It does not segment.  However, a 2gig table will dump to a
>> > much smaller version than 2gig because of the overhead for every
record.
>>
>> Hmmm, I think that, as some people are now using >2Gig tables, we should
>> think of adding segmentation to pg_dump as an option, otherwise this is
>> going to become a real issue at some point.
>
>So the OS doesn't get a table over 2 gigs.  Does anyone have a table
>that dumps a flat file over 2gig's, whose OS can't support files over 2
>gigs.  Never heard of a complaint.
>
>
>>
>> Also, I think we could do with having some standard way of dumping and
>> restoring large objects.
>
>I need to add a separate large object type.
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