Re: [NOVICE] Maximum size before having to use BLOBs.

From: <ghaverla(at)freenet(dot)edmonton(dot)ab(dot)ca>
To: Ryan Ho <ryanho(at)pacific(dot)net(dot)sg>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Maximum size before having to use BLOBs.
Date: 2000-06-15 12:20:20
Message-ID: Pine.A41.3.95.1000615061836.44468A@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ryan Ho wrote:

> What is the maximum size 'text' or 'varchar' can support before a BLOB has to be
> used. I need to store some small text files and I don't know how big is too big
> for a 'varchar'.

As I understand things, a "tuple" (all the elements in a row) plus a few
bytes for book-keeping have to be less than 8192 bytes. I haven't pushed
to see if my understanding is correct.

Gord

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