Re: pg_class.relpages/allvisible probably shouldn't be a int4

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_class.relpages/allvisible probably shouldn't be a int4
Date: 2014-05-30 11:00:47
Message-ID: CA+U5nMKfvP+O-X3W+JCPKnX=S81i8JuRVZYG2dHX=4LVYWUq3Q@mail.gmail.com
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On 12 May 2014 08:15, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

>> But I concur that in practice, if you're dealing with 16TB tables, it's time
>> to partition.
>
> Well, we need to improve our partitioning for that to be viable for all
> relations. Not having usable foreign and unique keys makes it a pita in
> some cases.

As discussed, declarative partitioning is on the roadmap for this next
release, so I would say lets just document that tablesizes above 16TB
don't report correctly and move on.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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