Re: how to store more than 3 MB of character data in Postgres Varchar field

Vadivel Subramaniam <vadivel.subramaniam@flextronicssoftware.com> writes:
> 2. create table utilntmlscripts (name character varying, data character
> varying(10485770));
>       ERROR:  length for type 'varchar' cannot exceed 10485760
>       It's not allowing more than 10 MB of size during table creation.

Use type "text", or equivalently varchar with no length specification.

The 1-MB limit on what you can write as a length spec is somewhat
arbitrary, but certainly an enforced length spec larger than that
would be a completely arbitrary number as well ...
        regards, tom lane