Re: question about upper limit on TEXT size

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Cindy <ctmoore(at)uci(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: question about upper limit on TEXT size
Date: 2002-08-13 01:54:36
Message-ID: 20813.1029203676@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Cindy <ctmoore(at)uci(dot)edu> writes:
> Hi, all. I'm working with a database record that includes one field
> of type text. It's my understanding there is no upper limit on this
> data type's size. However, I'm running into size related problems
> with this. It could be due to the interface I'm using (my programs
> are in C, and I'm using the libpq-fe.h interface (version 1.80 of
> 2001/11/08). On the PGresult var I'm getting back, the
> PQresultErrorMessage is telling me ERROR: Tuple is too big: size
> 54776, max size 8128

<blink> What Postgres version are you using? If it's recent (7.1
or later), could we see the full schema of your table?

regards, tom lane

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