Sam Barnett-Cormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>> None of that has the slightest relevance to Postgres, however, since we
>> always split large tables into gigabyte-sized segment files.
> I was under the impression that largefile would make the DB store data
> in larger files, where appropriate,
It does not. (There is a manual compile-time option to turn off the
splitting, but the non-split code paths haven't been exercised in years,
and quite honestly I wouldn't trust them.)
> For example, running out of inodes is also reported as out-of-space.
Excellent thought ...
regards, tom lane
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