Re: 8K Limit, whats the best strategy?

From: "Poul L(dot) Christiansen" <plc(at)faroenet(dot)fo>
To: Keith Wong <keith(at)e-magine(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8K Limit, whats the best strategy?
Date: 2000-08-15 17:49:43
Message-ID: 399982B7.69A41FA4@faroenet.fo
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I've just split the text up (in 8 pieces), so it fits into 8K rows. But thats
only a viable solution if your text is less than a couple of 100K's.

You could try to be a daredevil and use the Toast code, even if it's beta. But
I don't know how far the Toast project has come.

Keith Wong wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just wondering what strategies people have used to get around the 8K row
> limit in Postgres.
> If anyone has been troubled by this limitation before and has a nice
> solution around it, I would love to hear it.
>
> My application is a web-based system in which needs to store large amounts
> of text.
> The text stored needs to searchable as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Keith.

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