Re: Large strings

Nelson Ferreira Junior wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a JDBC aplication that actualy works with Oracle and I am
> porting it PostgreSQL. The trouble is that I have some rows with type
> "LONG" (in Oracle) where are stored strings with up to 20Kb and
> PostgreSQL doesn't hava this type and seems to be impossible to store
> strings larger than 8Kb with the types "TEXT" or "VARCHAR".
> What can I do ?!?!
>
> thanks.

Now I read something about changing the BLOCK SIZE to a higher
value and recompiling the backend. But it will require more disk space to
store the data, isn't it? How much disk space will I need if a chage the
block size to 32K? Will it decrease performance or confiability ?
Before you suggest me to use BLOBs to store these large strings,
I'd say that I cannot change my aplication in that way.

Thanks
again.