Port Bug Report: unable to insert a string into a field > 4K

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POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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Your name : DJ Morgan
Your email address : morgandj(at)usa(dot)net

Category : runtime: back-end: SQL
Severity : serious

Summary: unable to insert a string into a field > 4K

System Configuration
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Operating System : linux

PostgreSQL version : 6.5

Compiler used : gcc 2.7

Hardware:
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Versions of other tools:
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Standard Redhat 5.1

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Problem Description:
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When I was running 6.3.2 I was able to insert strings
> than 7K into a field. Having upgraded to 6.4 I find that
the backend processes 'postgres' just die.

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Test Case:
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Create table test (s text);
insert into s values (5000 bytes of spaces);

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Solution:
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