Subject Re: [firebird-support] Problems with pages
Author Bogusław Brandys
Alexey Kovjazin wrote:
> Hello, Ales!
>
>
>>I've written some short python code using the kinterbasdb module
>>to fill a database table with 600 million records in order to see
>>how Firebird behaves with such a huge amount of data. After about
>>430 million inserts (a hard commit after every 10000 records) I
>>got the following error:
>
>
>>gbak: 422260000 records written
>>gbak: ERROR: internal gds software consistency check (pointer page vanished
>
>>from DPM_next (249))
>
>
> This is the limit of InterBase/Firebird table size.
> In short, database cannot contain table with physical size >36,6 gb.
>
> Details are here:
>
> http://www.ibsurgeon.com/interbase/firebird/bug/research.html


OK.I assume that threr is are plans to fix this limit in 1.5.2 , right ?
Would be interesting to know if Interbase 7.1 has this limit too.



Regards
Boguslaw Brandys