Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com> writes:
> For what it is worth, Postgresql has a 1 Gb limit on the size of a text field. So if you know that you ascii chars
are8 bits, then you should be able to store a little over 134,000,000 characters.
Uh, the hard limit is 1 gigabyte, not 1 gigabit.
(Whether you can approach the limit with reasonable performance is
another question ... I wouldn't try it in a 32-bit machine, for sure.)
regards, tom lane