Re: TUPLE SIZE HELP

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-07-18T23:36:47Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> 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 ...

IIRC lztext does only compression and not splitting, so it just gets you
so far ...

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Hannu