Hi,

> InterBase and Firebird have always had a 32-bit page number, so the
> total number of database pages that can be addressed is 4G, regardless
> of whether they're in one file or 1000 files. I don't know where the
> 7TB number came from - probably due to senile dementia, please feel free
> to remind me - but until we do a thorough redesign of the ODS, we're
> limited to 4G pages of whatever page size.

The pagenumber is signed and i remember code that check on a positive number thus the maximum number
is 31-bits IIRC.
Max. 2^31 * 16384 ?

Regards,
Arno Brinkman
ABVisie

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