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Re: [HACKERS] Arbitrary tuple size

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Cc: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian), pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-07-08T17:33:06Z
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wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> I agree this is the way to go.  There is nothing I can think of that is
>> limited to how large a tuple can be.

>     Outch - I can.

>     Having  an  index  on a varlen field that now doesn't fit any
>     more into an index block. Wouldn't this cause problems?

Aren't index tuples still tuples?  Can't they be split just like
regular tuples?

			regards, tom lane