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Re: Re: 7.2 items

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-27T16:44:29Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> What for/why bother?  A toastable bytea column would do just as well.

> There's still a 1 or 2 GB limit for data stored in that.

1 Gb, I believe ... but LOs are not a lot better; they'd max out at 2 or
at most 4 Gb, depending on whether the code always treats offsets as
unsigned.

			regards, tom lane