Re: Tables exceeding 2gb

2001-06-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Yee Chuan Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The document at > http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_size.html > seems to suggest that the reason why there's a limit to the table size is > because of the number of bytes used by the file system to store offsets, > so its more or less file system depe

Re: Tables exceeding 2gb

2001-06-26 Thread Yee Chuan Loh
The document at http://www.mysql.com/doc/T/a/Table_size.html seems to suggest that the reason why there's a limit to the table size is because of the number of bytes used by the file system to store offsets, so its more or less file system dependant (pls correct me if i'm wrong). It also wrote t

Re: Tables exceeding 2gb

2001-06-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
(sql, to fool lame filter) ryc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The OS may not have a 2GB limit, however the table MAY. If you do a > myisamchk on the table it will tell you if you are running out of space in > the table. If you are.. you need do something like "alter table tablename > max_rows=100

Re: Tables exceeding 2gb

2001-06-26 Thread ryc
The OS may not have a 2GB limit, however the table MAY. If you do a myisamchk on the table it will tell you if you are running out of space in the table. If you are.. you need do something like "alter table tablename max_rows=1000".. (its in the manual) ryan > > I have a Linux machine (Linux

Re: Tables exceeding 2gb

2001-06-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Guðmundur Ólafsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I have a Linux machine (Linux cartman 2.4.2-2smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 > 20:21:34 EDT 2001 i686 unknown) that is running MySQL 3.23.38-log and > now I have a table that is getting VERY near to the ext2 filesystem > limitation of 2gb. Ext2 does

Tables exceeding 2gb

2001-06-26 Thread Guðmundur Ólafsson
Hi, I have a Linux machine (Linux cartman 2.4.2-2smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 20:21:34 EDT 2001 i686 unknown) that is running MySQL 3.23.38-log and now I have a table that is getting VERY near to the ext2 filesystem limitation of 2gb. Exact size of the table is: 2039867196 :) So my question is. What h