Re: [DOCS] Let's document a bytea bug

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Andrey M(dot) Borodin" <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Anna Akenteva <a(dot)akenteva(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [DOCS] Let's document a bytea bug
Date: 2020-08-03 22:04:47
Message-ID: 20200803220447.GG17519@momjian.us
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On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 05:39:47PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2020-Aug-03, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > So, the character and octet length is 600 million, but on output, that
> > will be expanded, and both SELECT and pg_dump fail. I also can't see
> > how to improve the error message since it happens so low in the stack.
>
> I think you'll find commits fa2fa9955280 and b66adb7b0c83 amusing.

Yeah, I saw those, but they were dealing with tuple length limits, but I
also saw they were reverted, so this is a hard problem.

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