| From: | darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain) |
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| To: | vev(at)michvhf(dot)com (Vince Vielhaber) |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)hub(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 7.0 key features |
| Date: | 2000-05-08 22:15:47 |
| Message-ID: | m12ovoZ-000AXbC@druid.net |
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Thus spake Vince Vielhaber
> > > > Well, it's BLCKSZ less some overhead --- BLCKSZ is 8K in a stock
> > > > installation ...
> > >
> > > A text datatype isn't limited to that too, is it?
> >
> > It would kind of have to be, wouldn't it, if the row it had to fit in
> > had that limit?
>
> BLOBs aren't. Or did I miss something somewhere? I've always understood
> the text datatype to be simply a text version of a BLOB. Not necessarily
> in Postgres, but elsewhere.
You mean text FILES, not datatype. There is a base type called text
which has to fit in the row so it is naturally limited to the row size.
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