Re: Unanswered questions about Postgre

Joe Kislo <postgre@athenium.com>

From: Joe Kislo <postgre@athenium.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>, igorr@ifi.uio.no, kislo@athenium.com, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-11-30T17:33:21Z
Lists: pgsql-general
> If that seems too small, maybe you need to rethink your database design
> ;-)
> 
> There's also a 1G limit on the size of an individual BLOB that can be
> part of a row.

	Hmm, 1G is probably fine :)   But is there going to be a blob type with
toast?  If I want to store a large binary object, and have the ability
of retrieving it strictly over the postgre database connection, would I
be retrieving a blob column, or a really long varchar column?

Thanks,

-Joe