Re: [GENERAL] 8 K Limit??

From: Ari Halberstadt <ari(at)shore(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8 K Limit??
Date: 1999-06-08 00:00:17
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Sean R Melody <srm765(at)merle(dot)acns(dot)nwu(dot)edu> wrote:
>Our student government here at Northwestern is putting our legislation
>archives online with Postgresql. The only problem we encountered was
>that there seems to be an 8 K table limit in Postgresql. I was
>wondering if there is a way around it or if version 6.5 will no longer
>have this limitation.
>Thanks,
>Sean
>

No painless way. You can split long fields into separate rows with a
sequence number column so you can join the rows back together. You could
also store large data in files instead of in the database, with a pointer
to the file in a column.

-- Ari Halberstadt mailto:ari(at)shore(dot)net <http://www.magiccookie.com/>
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