Re: Toast, Text, blob bytea Huh?

From: Peter T Mount <peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
Cc: jason(dot)ory(at)ndchealth(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Toast, Text, blob bytea Huh?
Date: 2001-08-24 14:27:48
Message-ID: 998663268.3b8664649b304@webmail.retep.org.uk
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Quoting Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>:

> TEXT is a datatype which stores character data of unspecified length (up
> to
> the max value of a 4 byte integer in length, although I've seen
> comments
> indicating that the practical limit is closer to 1 GB -- not sure why).

It may be something to do with the 1Gb splitting of the physical files
representing a table... Unless it changed recently, a table was split over
multiple files at the 1Gb mark.

Peter

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