Re: query : max size Bytea

From: "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Arunachalam Parthasarathy" <arunachalamamsam(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: query : max size Bytea
Date: 2007-12-20 17:46:36
Message-ID: 162867790712200946i7ba8eb92v908ac595c0c35aee@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

there are limits:
Maximum size for a table? 16 TB
Maximum size for a row? 1.6TB
Maximum size for a field? 1 GB

But my experience is, on older servers with RAM < 2G is +/- 20M long
bytea slow and it is better use BLOB, that is much faster for longer
items.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

On 20/12/2007, Arunachalam Parthasarathy <arunachalamamsam(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> hi,
> i would request you to answer the following query:
>
> 1. What is the maximum size of data single Bytea entry in column?
>
> i would be thankful to you for the above request
> .
> P.S : my current reqirement is to add more that 1 gb of data in a
> single entry of type bytea column in each row.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Arunachalam
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