From ab71c20fdf7dbd63638a163ca628821643a3cfd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:39:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update FAQ.
---
doc/FAQ | 9 ++++++++-
doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html | 9 ++++++++-
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/FAQ b/doc/FAQ
index 6ae1a8d19e9..373223a40fc 100644
--- a/doc/FAQ
+++ b/doc/FAQ
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@
These are the limits:
Maximum size for a database? unlimited (60GB databases exist)
-Maximum size for a table? 64 TB on all operating systems
+Maximum size for a table? 16 TB
Maximum size for a row? unlimited in 7.1 and later
Maximum size for a field? 1GB in 7.1 and later
Maximum number of rows in a table? unlimited
@@ -650,6 +650,13 @@ Maximum number of indexes on a table? unlimited
disk space and memory/swap space. Performance may suffer when these
values get unusually large.
+ The maximum table size of 16TB does not require large file support
+ from the operating system. Large tables are stored as multiple 1GB
+ files.
+
+ The maximum table size and maximum number of columns can be increased
+ by four if the default block size is increased to 32k.
+
4.7) How much database disk space is required to store data from a typical
text file?
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
index 9d2634467c2..e180b923e3b 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@
<P>These are the limits:</P>
<PRE>
Maximum size for a database? unlimited (60GB databases exist)
-Maximum size for a table? 64 TB on all operating systems
+Maximum size for a table? 16 TB
Maximum size for a row? unlimited in 7.1 and later
Maximum size for a field? 1GB in 7.1 and later
Maximum number of rows in a table? unlimited
@@ -842,6 +842,13 @@ Maximum number of indexes on a table? unlimited
available disk space and memory/swap space. Performance may
suffer when these values get unusually large.
+ <P>The maximum table size of 16TB does not require large file
+ support from the operating system. Large tables are stored
+ as multiple 1GB files.
+
+ <P>The maximum table size and maximum number of columns can be
+ increased by four if the default block size is increased to 32k.
+
<H4><A name="4.7">4.7</A>) How much database disk space is required
to store data from a typical text file?<BR>
</H4>
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