Re: Postgresql, PSN hack and table limits

Greg Smith wrote:
> On 05/01/2011 01:50 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> Somebody is making a very specific claim that Postgres can support a
>> limited number of rows
>
>
> Did you find this via
> http://www.reversecurity.com/2011/04/new-details-from-psn-hack.html ?
> That was the only Google-indexed source leading to it I found.  I just
> left a note there about the silliness of these claims.  I could run more
> than a 10M row PostgreSQL instance on my phone.  Unless there's a new
> 16-bit only Vic 20 port of PostgreSQL available or something, it's seems
> unlikely the data had to be partitioned due to any hard limit.

Yes, via Google. I was digging around for any information about what
sort of access and APIs the network made available to end-user (or
ersatz developer) systems.

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