Thus spake Vince Vielhaber
> > > > Well, it's BLCKSZ less some overhead --- BLCKSZ is 8K in a stock
> > > > installation ...
> > >
> > > A text datatype isn't limited to that too, is it?
> >
> > It would kind of have to be, wouldn't it, if the row it had to fit in
> > had that limit?
>
> BLOBs aren't. Or did I miss something somewhere? I've always understood
> the text datatype to be simply a text version of a BLOB. Not necessarily
> in Postgres, but elsewhere.
You mean text FILES, not datatype. There is a base type called text
which has to fit in the row so it is naturally limited to the row size.
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