Re: [GENERAL] bytea size limit?

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Cc: paulo matadr <saddoness(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)br>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, admin <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] bytea size limit?
Date: 2009-01-21 14:09:01
Message-ID: 2f4958ff0901210609j7ead1ca6k7b170f3e2be21448@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu> wrote:

> The TOAST implementation however only allows 30-bits for the
> size of the TOAST entry which caps the size at 2^30 or 1GB. I
> agree that he could very well be limited also by the memory on
> his system.

i wasn't aware of that, and also - it doesn't say anything about it in docs.
As for limitations, that also depends on db drivers he is using, etc,
etc. I use bytea to store 100-200MB objects in many dbs, but I
wouldn't go as far as 1.5GB ...

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GJ

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