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Re: Toast, Text, blob bytea Huh?

Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

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From: Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
To: Joe Conway <joseph.conway@home.com>
Cc: jason.ory@ndchealth.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-08-24T14:27:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Quoting Joe Conway <joseph.conway@home.com>:

> TEXT is a datatype which stores character data of unspecified length (up
> to
> the max value of a 4 byte integer in length, although I've seen
> comments
> indicating that the practical limit is closer to 1 GB -- not sure why).

It may be something to do with the 1Gb splitting of the physical files 
representing a table... Unless it changed recently, a table was split over 
multiple files at the 1Gb mark.

Peter

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