Ake Sandgren wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 06:37:10PM +0200, Sergio Andreozzi wrote:
>
>>2. this value causes problems to applications that represent integer on
>>4 bytes. If they use a signed int4 (worst case), the max value is
>>2G*Kbyte=2Terabytes. I'm promoting the change of the unit of measure to
>
>
> Start uppdating applications too then, since representing storage space
> with only 4 bytes went of ot fashion about 5 years ago or so.
>
this is out of my control. I can just try to prevent these problems as I
see that they still appear. Move the unit of measure to MB is
meaningful. But greater order of magnitude are not desirable.
Cheers,
Sergio
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