On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Bernhard Ankenbrand wrote: > Hi, > > we have a table width about 60.000.000 entrys and about 4GB storage size. > When creating an index on this table the whole linux box freezes and the > reiser-fs file system is corrupted on not recoverable. > > Does anybody have experience with this amount of data in postgres 7.4.2? > Is there a limit anywhere? If your file system is getting corrupted, then you likely have found a bug in reiserfs or the linux kernel. While some pgsql bug might be able to corrupt the contents of a file belonging to it, it doesn't have the power to corrupt the file system itself. Or is the problem a corrupted database, not a corrupted file system? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html