It might have been a 6.5 pre-release, I can't find the CD now of course..

So, you are saying that FB 1.5 still uses 32bit addressing for external
tables and temporary files?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leyne, Sean [mailto:sleyne@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:10 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] External file size limit
>
>
>
> > So you still are not supposed to let database files get
> beyond 2gig???
>
> No, for Firebird v1.0 onward databases size is limited by the
> OS and file system.
>
>
> > I find it amusing that I was able to build databases,
> > external files and
> > temp files well in excess of 6gigs under Interbase 6.0, but
> > this didn't carry over into FB?
>
> Are you sure about IB 6.0 it wasn't v6.5?
>
> I know that the IB 6.0 beta did not support 64bit I/O for anything.
>
> Also, the IB6.5 web site mentions VLDB (Very large database, ie. 64Bit
> I/O) as a **new** feature.
>
>
> Sean
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