Re: limits?

From: Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de>
To: Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: limits?
Date: 2008-06-24 03:49:35
Message-ID: 48606ECF.1020709@wildenhain.de
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Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Steve Atkins wrote on 23.06.2008 20:21:
> > In real use you're unlikely to hit any limits, theoretical or practical,
>
> I imagine that the 1GB column-value limit is something that could be
> reached though. Especially for BLOB (aka bytea) or CLOB (aka text) columns.

No, since they are stored out of band (toast tables). For *lob there is
a lob type which stored the data completely separate, not to be confused
with bytea and text (varchar).

Tino.

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