On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:41:28PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 15:30, Travis Harris wrote: > > I would like to use P* to store files. These files will probably > > range from 500K to 2 MB in size and there will be thousands upon > > thousands of them. I was wondering how P* stores blobs, if it is all > > in one file, or if each blob is sored in it's own file. The reason > > being, I know that windows has a 2 GB limit on files, and if they are > > not stored as their own files, I'll hit my limit FAST... and it'll do > > me no good... If this is going to be a problem, does anyone have any > > suggestions? > > If you store them as large objects, they will each get their own file. Huh, no, they won't. They will be stored in the pg_largeobject table. It's been quite a while since they are not stored in separate files; though they keep the POSIX-filesystem-like semantics. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>) Syntax error: function hell() needs an argument. Please choose what hell you want to involve. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
