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From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: index row requires 10040 bytes, maximum size is 8191
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Msg-id 1289595146.4869.13.camel@jd-desktop
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In response to index row requires 10040 bytes, maximum size is 8191  (akp geek <akpgeek@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:47 -0500, akp geek wrote:
> Hi all -
>
>             I am trying to create an index on character varying field.
> The
> column is just character varying with no limit. I am getting the
> following
> error " index row requires 10040 bytes, maximum size is 8191"
> What can I do the postgres.conf to handle this error? Appreciate your
> help

You can't. You could create a index on "part" of the data or use full
text.

JD

>
> Regards
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