Michael Ströder wrote:
rammohan ganapavarapu wrote:You mean we can resize db any time?You can increase but *not decrease* maxsize later.Wouldn't it be nice to have no max limit and grow db dynamically?Not possible with a memory-mapped DB. Others can explain better in detail why.
"No limit" is kind of a pointless phrase. The physical limit will always be the size of free space in your filesystem. Aside from that you can simply do what the documentation says - configure a huge size and let the DB grow dynamically within that size. Use 64TB or whatever, and forget about it.
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