Re: TUPLE SIZE HELP

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Swan <tswan(at)olemiss(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TUPLE SIZE HELP
Date: 2000-07-18 23:50:19
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0007182049290.1745-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:

> Thomas Swan wrote:
> >
> > >That would be the wrong thing to change in any case. BLCKSZ in
> > >include/config.h is the value you can twiddle.
> >
> > Are there any plans to remove this limitation from the TEXT datatype? If
> > so, do you know what version we might see this in?
>
> It is already in the current development tree and will be
> shipped with the next release, scheduled for end of the year.

Just a quick note ... with v7.x, you *can* use the lztext type to get by
the limitation ... its a temporary fix, but I believe that Vince is using
it for the web site for similar reasons to the original poster ...

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