Re: TUPLE SIZE HELP

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Thomas Swan <tswan@olemiss.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-07-18T23:50:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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 ...