Poul L. Christiansen wrote:
> I've just split the text up (in 8 pieces), so it fits into 8K rows. But thats
> only a viable solution if your text is less than a couple of 100K's.
>
> You could try to be a daredevil and use the Toast code, even if it's beta. But
> I don't know how far the Toast project has come.
TOAST is finished and will be shipped with 7.1. It's not a solution for huge items, but medium sized text up
to some hundred K works fine.
Jan
>
> Keith Wong wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Just wondering what strategies people have used to get around the 8K row
> > limit in Postgres.
> > If anyone has been troubled by this limitation before and has a nice
> > solution around it, I would love to hear it.
> >
> > My application is a web-based system in which needs to store large amounts
> > of text.
> > The text stored needs to searchable as well.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Keith.
>
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