wrong information about unlimied size of text field?

From: Hubert depesz Lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)pl>
To: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: wrong information about unlimied size of text field?
Date: 2002-09-03 12:56:55
Message-ID: 20020903125655.GA24879@depesz.pl
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hi
according to what i know, where is a limit for up to 2gigabytes of data
in text fields (according to c.h).
this limit is of course very big, but i belive it should be mentioned in
datatype.sgml instead of saying:

<entry><type>text</type></entry>
<entry>Variable unlimited length</entry>

if this is not the case, i'd like some information how longer text's can
be stored, when text is internally of "varlena" type, where
varlena.vl_len is of int32 type.

best regards

depesz

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