Re: query : max size Bytea

From: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>
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Cc: Arunachalam Parthasarathy <arunachalamamsam(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: query : max size Bytea
Date: 2007-12-20 17:54:05
Message-ID: 476AAC3D.4050200@esilo.com
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Andrew Chernow wrote:
> 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
>

Sorry, my mistake. Max size is 1G. oops.

andrew

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