Re: Re: 7.2 items - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Re: 7.2 items
Date
Msg-id 8802.993660269@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Re: 7.2 items  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Re: 7.2 items  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> What for/why bother?  A toastable bytea column would do just as well.

> There's still a 1 or 2 GB limit for data stored in that.

1 Gb, I believe ... but LOs are not a lot better; they'd max out at 2 or
at most 4 Gb, depending on whether the code always treats offsets as
unsigned.
        regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Subject: Re: Re: 7.2 items
Next
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler"
Date:
Subject: Re: Re: Encrypting pg_shadow passwords