On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Constans, Camille (C.C.) wrote:
I saw something in mysql manual about table size. Mysql can handle a table o$ And i know that old_table from english wikipedia is 1,5Go with bzip2.
There may be such a limit on individual data objects, but tables can certainly be bigger; the English old table is _much_ bigger than 4gb, and our whole InnoDB data store file is about 16gb.
(A note though: some filesystems cannot handle files larger than 4gb. In particular, I recommend against trying to decompress the english old article dump on a FAT32 filesystem...)
Maybe we could think about 64 bit processors for our new server ?
Well, that'd be cool too. :)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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