Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-22 Thread Brent Baisley
think it issues a segfault. - Original Message - From: "Micah Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JP Hindin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 5:24 PM Subject: Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times Oh, I didn'

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-22 Thread Micah Stevens
Oh, I didn't see the first comment. My mistake. It's likely a 32bit integer size limit of some sort then. 32bit = 4gbytes -Micah On 03/22/2007 02:08 PM, JP Hindin wrote: Micah; In the first eMail I mentioned that I had excluded filesystem size limits by manually producing a 14GB tar file. If

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-22 Thread JP Hindin
Micah; In the first eMail I mentioned that I had excluded filesystem size limits by manually producing a 14GB tar file. If it was only that simple :) On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Micah Stevens wrote: > This table size is based on your filesystem limits. This is a limit of > the OS, not MySQL. > > -Micah

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-22 Thread Micah Stevens
This table size is based on your filesystem limits. This is a limit of the OS, not MySQL. -Micah On 03/22/2007 01:02 PM, JP Hindin wrote: Addendum; On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, JP Hindin wrote: Zero improvement. I used the following CREATE: MAX_ROWS=10; At first I thought I

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-22 Thread JP Hindin
I have, after further googling, discovered that the 4.2 billion figure that MySQL uses as 'max_rows' is, indeed, max_rows and not a max database size in bytes. In theory I have solved my problem, and wasted however many peoples bandwidth by putting all these eMails to the MySQL list. Mea culpa, m

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-22 Thread JP Hindin
Addendum; On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, JP Hindin wrote: > Zero improvement. I used the following CREATE: > MAX_ROWS=10; At first I thought I had spotted the obvious in the above - the MAX_ROWS I used is smaller than the Max_data_length that resulted, presumably MySQL being smarter than I a

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-22 Thread JP Hindin
ot;Michael Dykman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "JP Hindin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:09 PM > Subject: Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times > > > > > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Michael Dykman wrote: &g

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-15 Thread Brent Baisley
PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Dykman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "JP Hindin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:09 PM Subject: Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Michael Dykman wrote: What host OS are you

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-15 Thread JP Hindin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Michael Dykman wrote: > What host OS are you running? And which file system? MySQL is always > limited by the file size that the host file system can handle. "Deb Sarge" is a Linux distribution, the "large file support" I mentioned allows files up to 2 TB in size. > On 3/15/

Re: max_rows query + SegFaulting at inopportune times

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Dykman
What host OS are you running? And which file system? MySQL is always limited by the file size that the host file system can handle. - michael dykman On 3/15/07, JP Hindin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings all; I have a quandary regarding table limits, and clearly I am not understanding ho

RE: MAX_ROWS

2004-02-25 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 25 Feb 2004 at 8:35, Tucker, Gabriel wrote: > What values of MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH would I need so that I > could limit this table to 3 [or n] number of records? You can't. That's not what MAX_ROWS and AVG_ROW_LENGTH are for. They're only there to allow MySQL to decide how many bytes

RE: MAX_ROWS

2004-02-25 Thread Tucker, Gabriel
? How do I calculate this? Additionally, is there a better way, not using the OS, to limit the size of MyISAM tables? Thanks Gabe -Original Message- From: Keith C. Ivey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MAX_ROWS On 24 Feb

Re: MAX_ROWS

2004-02-24 Thread Keith C. Ivey
On 24 Feb 2004 at 22:01, Alison W wrote: > Yes: MAX_ROWS is a *guidance* to the system in setting up the table > and not a *limit* in any way. Well, it is a limit in one way. MySQL uses it (in MyISAM tables) to calculate the size of the pointer used for positions within the data file. If the

Re: MAX_ROWS

2004-02-24 Thread Alison W
> I wanted to test how the max_rows parameter works. I set it to 3 on a > table. And, I was able to add 33 records [I stopped at this point]. It > never prevented me from adding more records. The result is NOT what I > expected. I expected that upon attempting to add the 4th record, I would >

Re: MAX_ROWS

2002-06-18 Thread Zak Greant
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 11:43, Aborla.net - webmaster wrote: > Hello, > > I created a table using: > "CREATE TABLE a (pa VARCHAR (255) NOT NULL, pi VARCHAR (255), PRIMARY KEY > (pa)) TYPE=HEAP MAX_ROWS=10" > > Then I inserted 16 recors. Later I done SELECT * FFROM a and mysql returned > 16 records