RE: [HACKERS] Tuple length limit

From: "Stupor Genius" <stuporg(at)erols(dot)com>
To: "Pgsql-Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Tuple length limit
Date: 1999-07-04 03:24:21
Message-ID: 000001bec5cc$b5644440$7d98accf@darren
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> Can someone tell me what the maximum tuple length is? Is it sort of
> BLCKSZ or BLCKSZ/2? I don't remember if we require the ability to have
> at least two tuples in a block.

IIRC, the max tuple size was always intended to be BLCKSZ, it's just the max
size of the text fields that were 4096. I don't remember any discussions
ever on this list about trying to control the # of tuples stored per block.

Hope this helps...

Darren

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