On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 10:16 AM Andrew Dunstan
<andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 9:38 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> >
> > This doesn't seem like a reason not to allow a higher limit, like a
> > megabyte or so, but I'm not sure that pushing it to the moon would be
> > wise.
> >
>
>
> Just to get a mental handle on the size of queries we might be
> allowing before truncation, I did some very rough arithmetic on what
> well known texts might fit in a megabyte. By my calculations you could
> fit about four Animal Farms or one Madame Bovary in about a megabyte.
> So I think that seems like more than enough :-). (My mind kinda
> explores at the thought of debugging a query as long as Animal Farm.)
>
Turns out my arithmetic was a bit off. Animal Farm is 90 kb, Madame
Bovary 678 Kb.
cheers
andrew
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