Durgamahesh Manne schrieb am 15.10.2018 um 11:05:
> On 10/5/18 8:18 AM, Durgamahesh Manne wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > please let me know the max length of varchar & text in postgres
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/datatype-character.html
>
> Hi
>
> Thank you for this information
>
> as per the postgresql documentation please ignore incomplete message i mailed to respected community members
>
> If |character varying |is used without length specifier, the type accepts strings of any size
>
> but varchar does not accept more than this 10485760 value
>
>
> create table test(id serial primary key, str varchar(10485761));
>
> ERROR: length for type varchar cannot exceed 10485760
Further down on that page the overall limit is documented:
In any case, the longest possible character string that can be stored is about 1 GB
So the part that you quoted implicitly means "accepts strings of any size - up to the maximum of 1GB"
Maybe it makes sense to make that clearer at that point.
Regards
Thomas
