From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: postgres limitation
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:44:19 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200101281544.KAA01275@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101272201400.577-100000@thelab.hub.org>
> > > Maximum size for a table?
> > >
> > > 2G blocks, hence 16 to 64 terabytes depending on the BLCKSZ
> > > configuration constant. (If someone were to run around and make sure
> > > all the block-number arithmetic is unsigned, we could claim 4G blocks,
> > > but I think it's not all unsigned now...)
Added to TODO:
* Make sure all block numbers are unsigned to increase maximum table size
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