Thread: Large text fields in the database

I am using the RPM packaged postgreSQL server 7.1.3 which is
shipped with RH 7.2.

The problem I have is the size of text fields. Although in Documentation
it clearly says that the DB supports text fields larger than 8Kb, I am
unable to insert or update fields (and tables for that matter) with data
larger than 8Kb.

Whenever I try to do that, I get unresolved symbol SPI_lastoid in
plpgsql.so

Can anyone help me with this - several friends suggested that I should
recompile the DB from source, and enable the large tuples, but I looked
in the source and it clearly says it's supported in this version.

Best regards,
alex.

"Aleksandar Radulovic" <alex@juventus.is> writes:
> I am using the RPM packaged postgreSQL server 7.1.3 which is
> shipped with RH 7.2.

> The problem I have is the size of text fields. Although in Documentation
> it clearly says that the DB supports text fields larger than 8Kb, I am
> unable to insert or update fields (and tables for that matter) with data
> larger than 8Kb.

> Whenever I try to do that, I get unresolved symbol SPI_lastoid in
> plpgsql.so

It's quite improbable that the latter has anything directly to do with
the former.  However, the latter does seems to suggest a version
mismatch problem --- specifically, a 7.1 plpgsql.so and an older
postgres backend.  So I will suggest that your real problem is you have
not updated all components of your PG installation to 7.1.
Try "rpm -qa | grep postgres" and see if anything's out of sync.

            regards, tom lane