Re: query : max size Bytea

From: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>
To: Arunachalam Parthasarathy <arunachalamamsam(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: query : max size Bytea
Date: 2007-12-20 17:47:03
Message-ID: 476AAA97.9090607@esilo.com
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Arunachalam Parthasarathy wrote:
> hi,
> i would request you to answer the following query:
>
> 1. What is the maximum size of data single Bytea entry in column?
>
> i would be thankful to you for the above request
> .
> P.S : my current reqirement is to add more that 1 gb of data in a
> single entry of type bytea column in each row.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Arunachalam
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bytea uses up to 4 bytes to represent the binary string length (signed
32-bit integer). So the max data size is 2G.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-binary.html

andrew

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