On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:55:52AM -0600, Joseph M. Day wrote: > > From the "Database Physical Storage" chapter in the 8.0 documentation: > > > > When a table or index exceeds 1Gb, it is divided into gigabyte-sized > > segments. The first segment's file name is the same as the > > filenode; subsequent segments are named filenode.1, filenode.2, > > etc. This arrangement avoids problems on platforms that have > > file size limitations. > > Is this a recent change? I have an old system loaded with Redhat 8.0 and > PG v7.2. Unless my memory fails me, it died trying to load the data into > the table.
The 7.2 source code appears to have this logic; I don't know if there are any problems with it. "It died" doesn't mean much -- a load could have failed for a number of reasons, so without the error message it's impossible to know what happened. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
