At 9:37 PM -0600 1/17/99, Mike wrote:
>is it really so difficult to put an option into mySQL to
>use let's say table_1 and table_2 and table_x... at the
>cost of a tiny insignificant piece of processing power?
>I mean, granted, I've not had a look at the mySQL code,
>but I'm assuming there is only so many spots in which
>fseek() is used, why not just put a check in there for
>an above 2gb condition and open another table file within
>a bunch of #define's... ? would make life for us linux
>people a hell of a lot easier.
I think a better argument would be to get Linux fixed at
the system level, so that programs wouldn't need to
perform ugly hacks at the application level. Otherwise
each program that needs to use 2GB+ size files must come
up with its own hack for bypassing that limit.
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