Re: COPY not handling BLOBs

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: David Rysdam <drysdam(at)ll(dot)mit(dot)edu>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COPY not handling BLOBs
Date: 2004-08-08 12:19:32
Message-ID: 87fz6xlt4b.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> writes:

> On 8/4/2004 1:58 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
>
>> bytea will only go up to "several thousand bytes" according to the
>> docs. I assume it's not very precise because the maximum is 8196 -
>> $other_fields_in_row. My binary data could be a couple times that
>> or even much bigger for other apps.
>
> I suggest upgrading to PostgreSQL 7.1 or newer.

Or reading the right set of docs. :)

-Doug
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