From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Rather incorrect text in admin guide
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:05:24 +0200
Message-ID: <3A4DCF84.10CF14E9@tm.ee> (raw)
References: <v6ito5977s.fsf@kechara.flame.org>
Michael Graff wrote:
>
> In the admin guide, under the section "Large Databases" is the
> following paragraph:
>
> Since Postgres allows tables larger than the maximum file size
> on your system, it can be problematic to dump the table to a
> file, since the resulting file will likely be larger than the
> maximum size allowed by your system. As pg_dump writes to the
> standard output, you can just use standard *nix tools to work
> around this possible problem.
>
> This is a generalization of, most likely, a failing in linux.
>
> NetBSD (which I use) will allow file sizes up to 2^64 -- I don't think
> anyone has generated a postgresql database that large yet.
>
> You might want to qualify that with "Operating systems which support
> 64-bit file sizes (such as NetBSD) will have no problem with large
> databases" or "some operating systems are limited to 2-gigabyte files
> (such as linux)"
Or more correctly "(such as some versions of linux)"
---------
Hannu
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