Re: Toast, Text, blob bytea Huh? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter T Mount
Subject Re: Toast, Text, blob bytea Huh?
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Msg-id 998663268.3b8664649b304@webmail.retep.org.uk
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In response to Re: Toast, Text, blob bytea Huh?  ("Joe Conway" <joseph.conway@home.com>)
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Re: Toast, Text, blob bytea Huh?
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Quoting Joe Conway <joseph.conway@home.com>:

> TEXT is a datatype which stores character data of unspecified length (up
> to
> the max value of a 4 byte integer in length, although I've seen
> comments
> indicating that the practical limit is closer to 1 GB -- not sure why).

It may be something to do with the 1Gb splitting of the physical files 
representing a table... Unless it changed recently, a table was split over 
multiple files at the 1Gb mark.

Peter

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