Re: 8K Limit, whats the best strategy?

I believe you are correct.  Version 7.1 will supposedly eliminate the row
size.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Swan" <tswan@olemiss.edu>
To: "Keith Wong" <keith@e-magine.com.au>; <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [SQL] 8K Limit, whats the best strategy?


> At 06:29 AM 8/15/2000, Keith Wong wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >Just wondering what strategies people have used to get around the 8K row
> >limit in Postgres.
> >If anyone has been troubled by this limitation before and has a nice
> >solution around it, I would love to hear it.
> >
> >My application is a web-based system in which needs to store large
amounts
> >of text.
> >The text stored needs to searchable as well.
>
> You can you the type LZTEXT which is compressed text so your mileage will
vary.
>
> The other option is to go in and recompile for a larger row size.  Most of
> the people I have talked to had no problems with this route.  I move the
> size limit on an x86 Linux box to 32K (the max) and have not had any
> problems.   In the next release, I don't believe the row size limit will
> exist (correct me if I'm wrong).
>
> Let me know the system your on, and I will try to help if I can.
>
> -
> - Thomas Swan
> - Graduate Student  - Computer Science
> - The University of Mississippi
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