Re: indexing large "text" attributes ... ERROR: maximum size is 8191

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Benjamin Arai <me(at)benjaminarai(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: indexing large "text" attributes ... ERROR: maximum size is 8191
Date: 2007-08-06 02:17:18
Message-ID: 8665.1186366638@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Benjamin Arai <me(at)benjaminarai(dot)com> writes:
> I am actually creating a GIN index on another field but I need to
> index the original "text" field to perform exact phrase matches.

Why do you think an extra index will be useful for that? Especially
a btree index?

regards, tom lane

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