Re: [SQL] index row size 2728 exceeds btree maximum, 27

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: KÖPFERL Robert <robert(dot)koepferl(at)sonorys(dot)at>, "'dpandey(at)secf(dot)com'" <dpandey(at)secf(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, 'PostgreSQL' <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [SQL] index row size 2728 exceeds btree maximum, 27
Date: 2005-06-02 16:35:42
Message-ID: 20050602163542.GA23150@wolff.to
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 13:40:53 +0100,
Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Actually, Dinesh didn't mention he was using this for the speed of
> lookup. He'd defined the columns as being the PRIMARY KEY, presumably
> because he feels they are/should be unique. Given that they are rows
> from a logfile, I'm not convinced this is the case.

Even for case you could still use hashes. The odds of a false collision
using SHA-1 are so small that some sort of disaster is more likely.
Another possibility is if there are a fixed number of possible messages,
is that they could be entered in their own table with a serail PK and
the other table could reference the PK.

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