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Re: Maximum size before having to use BLOBs.

D. Duccini <duccini@backpack.com>

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From: "D. Duccini" <duccini@backpack.com>
To: Ryan Ho <ryanho@pacific.net.sg>
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-06-15T13:25:41Z
Lists: pgsql-novice 

duccini=> create table test (mail varchar(8192));
ERROR:  length for type 'varchar' cannot exceed 8088
duccini=> 

the answer would be 8088

-duck

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ryan Ho wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What is the maximum size 'text' or  'varchar' can support before a BLOB has to be
> used. I need to store some small text files and I don't know how big is too big
> for a 'varchar'.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Ryan
> 


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