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Re: Effect of large text field data on queries



On Thursday 26 October 2006 12:51, Glen Parker <glenebob(at)nwlink(dot)com> wrote:
> Why would very large text values effect the speed of a seq scan that
> does not actually evaluate those values?

Seq scan reads the whole table.  The limiting factor is the size of the 
table on disk.

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