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From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: index row requires 10040 bytes, maximum size is 8191
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In response to Re: index row requires 10040 bytes, maximum size is 8191  (Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>)
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On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 09:48 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

>
> Thoughts, folks? Does this matter in practice, since anything you'd want
> to index will in practice be small enough or a candidate for full-text
> indexing?
>

I have run into this problem maybe 3 times in my whole career, precisely
because if you are dealing with text that big, you move to full text
search.

JD

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