Hi,
Just to see if psql raise an error message ;-)
Emmanuel.
Le ven, 14 jan 2000, D. Duccini a crit :
> and on top of that, why insert character strings into columns expecting
> numeric values?
>
> defintely use VARCHAR unless you are going to be filling those columns up
>
> -duck
>
> > Compte utilisateur Sultan-advl <webmaster(at)advl(dot)org> writes:
> > > newkiwi=> insert into localisation values ('999', 'ee', 'ff', '999', 'gg',
> > > 'hh', 'ii', 'jj', '999');
> > > ERROR: Tuple is too big: size 12356
> > > newkiwi=> \d localisation
> > > Table = localisation
> > > +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
> > > | Field | Type | Length|
> > > +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
> > > | id_loc | int4 not null | 4 |
> > > | voie_loc | char() | 2048 |
> > > | codebat_loc | char() | 2048 |
> > > | idplan_loc | int4 | 4 |
> > > | xplan_loc | char() | 2048 |
> > > | yplan_loc | char() | 2048 |
> > > | acces_loc | char() | 2048 |
> > > | accesen_loc | char() | 2048 |
> > > | id_ville_loc | int4 | 4 |
> > > +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
> >
> > Well, you've got six fixed-size 2K fields, which are going to take up
> > 12K all by themselves, plus there's a few dozen bytes of overhead.
> >
> > I'd suggest using varchar or text instead of char --- do you really
> > need 12K of blank-padding in every record?
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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> >
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