Re: TOAST and TEXT

It should be noted that there is still a limit of about 1GB if I
remember correctly.
--
Rod Taylor

There are always four sides to every story: your side, their side, the
truth, and what really happened.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bitmead" <chris@bitmead.com>
To: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 9:33 PM
Subject: [HACKERS] TOAST and TEXT


> Hi,
>
> Now that postgresql doesn't have field size limits, it seems to
> me they should be good for storing large blobs, even if it means
> having to uuencode them to be non-binary or whatever. I don't
> like the old large object implementation, I need to store very large
> numbers of objects and unless this implementation has changed
> in recent times it won't cut it.
>
> So my question is, I assume TEXT is the best data type to store
> large things in, what precisely is the range of characters that
> I can store in TEXT? Is it only characters ascii <= 127, or is
> it only printable characters, or everything except '\0' or what?
>
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