As I understand, the limit on external table size is 2gb. Is there any
plan to increase the limit? If so, I'd appreciate if you'd let me know
what's the time frame for doing so?



Thank you,

Hardy



PS: I thought that I should let you know that the alignment rules for fields
in external tables have inconsistencies. For example, I observed a bigint
field being aligned to a 4 byte boundary that was not on an 8 byte boundary.







-----Original Message-----
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dmitry Yemanov
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 10:27 PM
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] External Table Size



Helen Borrie wrote:

>

> Ann sent me a message "My recollection (weak at best) is that

> external files still use 32 bit I/O. Worth checking"

>

> So - the possibility exists that the limit *will* be 2 Gb. Dmitry? Vlad?

Ann is absolutely correct, external tables never were enhanced to

support 64-bit I/O.





Dmitry





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