Jack Orenstein wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> All segments before the last one should be exactly 1GB, but the last >> one can be anything up to that. Consult the comments in md.c for >> more details. (I think 7.4 may treat some corner cases differently >> from 8.3 anyway.) > > Just to be clear, you mean 2**30 (1,073,741,824) bytes, not 10**9? It's RELSEG_SIZE * BLCKSZ, where #define RELSEG_SIZE 131072 #define BLCKSZ 8192 (both from pg_config.h) -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support