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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: indexing large "text" attributes ... ERROR: maximum size is 8191
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In response to indexing large "text" attributes ... ERROR: maximum size is 8191  (Benjamin Arai <me@benjaminarai.com>)
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Benjamin Arai <me@benjaminarai.com> writes:
> I am actually creating a GIN index on another field but I need to
> index the original "text" field to perform exact phrase matches.

Why do you think an extra index will be useful for that?  Especially
a btree index?

            regards, tom lane

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