In what sense are these barriers? Does the database resist putting more data in it the closer to a petabyte you get? Is it likely to explode once it reaches 1 petabyte?
That is exactly why I bothered to post. I think banal idiots try to amplify the importance of a milestone, and a PB IS something of a psychological milestone, by calling it a barrier. There WAS a barrier, of sorts, at 2G or 4G depending on addressing scheme, but that was easily put away with other addressing schemes, and with 64-bit architecture, it's not even relevant any more.
Hey, I just passed the 384-character barrier! Whoah!, breezing right on past! This is amazing!
"Barrier"? (Score:1, Insightful)
Gigabyte barrier. Petabyte barrier.
In what sense are these barriers? Does the database resist putting more data in it the closer to a petabyte you get? Is it likely to explode once it reaches 1 petabyte?
Re: (Score:1)
Hey, I just passed the 384-character barrier! Whoah!, breezing right on past! This is amazing!
Re:"Barrier"? (Score:2)
The same barrier exists at 2TB or 2^32 disk sectors.
After that MSDOS style partition tables aren't good enough any more.