Re: [HACKERS] Arbitrary tuple size

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