Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > I agree this is the way to go. There is nothing I can think of that is
> > limited to how large a tuple can be.
>
> Outch - I can.
>
> Having an index on a varlen field that now doesn't fit any
> more into an index block. Wouldn't this cause problems? Well
> it's bad database design to index fields that will receive
> that long data because indexing them will blow up the
> database but it must work anyway.
Seems that in other DBMSes len of index tuple is more restricted
than len of heap one. So I think we shouldn't worry about this case.
Vadim