Re: is it possible to get around 4 billion row limit

2003-06-10 Thread Martin Waite
Hi Edward, Thanks for the info, but I tried setting the avg_row_length with no effect - I'm pretty sure you only need that for dynamic format tables (with varchars and text). My table is fixed format, and the table does claim to get around the 2/4GB limit. My problem is the maximum number of r

Re: is it possible to get around 4 billion row limit

2003-06-10 Thread Becoming Digital
Sorry, I meant to include this link, too. http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Table_size.html Edward Dudlik Becoming Digital www.becomingdigital.com - Original Message - From: "Martin Waite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MySQL List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 09 June, 2003 04:45 Subject: is i

Re: is it possible to get around 4 billion row limit

2003-06-10 Thread Becoming Digital
Perhaps this has something to do with it: "When you use a MyISAM table, MySQL uses the product of max_rows * avg_row_length to decide how big the resulting table will be. If you don't specify any of the above options, the maximum size for a table will be 4G (or 2G if your operating systems only