Tom Lane wrote: > Zdenek Kotala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane napsal(a): > >> These examples suggest that maybe what we want is not so much a "no > >> segments ever" mode as a segment size larger than 1GB. > > > PS: ZFS is happy with 2^64bit size and UFS has 1TB file size limit > > (depends on solaris version) > > So even on Solaris, "no segments ever" is actually a pretty awful idea. > As it stands, the code would fail on tables > 1TB. > > I'm thinking we need to reconsider this patch. Rather than disabling > segmentation altogether, we should see it as allowing use of segments > larger than 1GB. I suggest that we ought to just flat rip out the "non > segmenting" code paths in md.c, and instead look into what segment sizes > are appropriate on different platforms.
Agreed. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://postgres.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
