Bug #16278 Enable 64-bit offsets by default
Submitted: 7 Jan 2006 15:04 Modified: 29 Nov 2009 16:07
Reporter: Olaf van der Spek (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:* OS:Any (*)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc

[7 Jan 2006 15:04] Olaf van der Spek 
Description:
By default some tables are limited to 4 gbyte. I think this limit should not be present in a modern database server.
Could 64-bit offsets be enabled by default?
If not, could you add an option to enable them by default?

How to repeat:
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[28 Nov 2009 14:38] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Can you, please, be more specific. What exact limits do you mean and what you suggest to change?
[29 Nov 2009 15:54] Olaf van der Spek 
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/create-table.html

> If you don't specify either option, the maximum size for MyISAM data and index table files is 256TB of data by default (4GB before MySQL 5.0.6).

Looks like this has been fixed already.
[29 Nov 2009 16:07] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for the clarification.