On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Bullock, Dempsey wrote:
> I'm new to PGSQL 7.2...
>
> I plan to create an application that stores any kind of document directly
> within the database. Some of the files could be very large (1MB or larger).
> Where are the limitations documented?
/usr/doc/postgresql-7.2.1/html/largeobjects.html
Section 2.2 says: The large object implementation breaks large objects up
into "chunks" and stores the chunks in tuples in the database. A B-tree
index guarantees fast searches for the correct chunk number when doing
random access reads and writes.
I would presume this to meant that a large object has no finite size
limitation apart from the database itself exceeding disk space limits.
(But I could be wrong, I'm not a PostgreSQL developer.)
BTW: This should probably have been asked on the pgsql-novice list.
Regards,
Ian Morgan
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