Re: TOAST and TEXT

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Chris Bitmead <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TOAST and TEXT
Date: 2001-10-13 03:56:09
Message-ID: 7863.1002945369@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Although the field length is limited to 1GB, is there a row size
> limit?

Sure. 1Gb per field (hard limit) times 1600 fields (also hard limit).
In practice less, since TOAST pointers are 20bytes each at present,
meaning you can't have more than BLCKSZ/20 toasted fields in one row.

Whether this has anything to do with real applications is debatable,
however. I find it hard to visualize a table design that needs several
hundred columns that *all* need to be GB-sized.

regards, tom lane

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