Re: [GENERAL] size limits on insert/copy/etc

Unfortunately tuples cannot be bigger than 8k. Many of us I think look
forward to the day when this restriction doesn't apply (it is on the
to-do list), but at this point in time 8k is the limit.

Large objects will work, but they have other problems that make them
fairly impractical.

John Browning wrote:
>
> I'm trying to add large text items to a table (field declared as type
> text). PQSendQuery can't take more than 8192 bytes.That's OK. But COPY
> also complains that tuples of 29896 bytes are too big (trying to copy
> from a file). So how do I get big text fields into a table? Do I have to
> make them large objects? (And, if so, in what sense is the text field of
> "unlimited size"?) Or am I just missing something simple?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any advice...
>
> bests
>
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