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Re: Selecting a constant question

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: Larry McGhaw <lmcghaw@connx.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Dann Corbit <DCorbit@connx.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2007-06-12T08:06:58Z
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Larry McGhaw wrote:
> Again, *all* other major relational databases do this ...  even blob fields have a maximum length reported from the database.

So what are you doing with the max length? Not all data types and values 
have a meaningful max length, so you have to be able to deal with 
variable length data anyway.

For blobs, exactly what max length would you like to get; 1GB? 1TB? Why, 
what good is that for?

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