Re: bsddb3 database file, are there any unexpected file size limits occuring in practice?

2006-02-28 Thread Klaas
> In my current project I expect the total size of the indexes to exceed > by far the size of the data indexed, but because Berkeley does not > support multiple indexed columns (i.e. only one key value column as > index) if I access the database files one after another (not > simultaneously) it sho

Re: bsddb3 database file, are there any unexpected file size limits occuring in practice?

2006-02-28 Thread Claudio Grondi
Klaas wrote: > Claudio writes: > >>I am on a Windows using the NTFS file system, so I don't expect problems >>with too large file size. > > > how large can files grow on NTFS? I know little about it. No practical limit on current harddrives. i.e.: Maximum file size Theory: 16 exabyt

Re: bsddb3 database file, are there any unexpected file size limits occuring in practice?

2006-02-27 Thread Klaas
Claudio writes: > I am on a Windows using the NTFS file system, so I don't expect problems > with too large file size. how large can files grow on NTFS? I know little about it. > (I suppose it in having only 256 MB RAM available that time) as it is > known that MySQL databases larger than 2 GByt

Re: bsddb3 database file, are there any unexpected file size limits occuring in practice?

2006-02-23 Thread Claudio Grondi
Klaas wrote: > Claudio Grondi wrote: > > >>Beside the intended database file >> databaseFile.bdb >>I see in same directory also the >> __db.001 >> __db.002 >> __db.003 >>files where >> __db.003 is ten times as larger as the databaseFile.bdb >>and >> __db.001 has the same size as the d