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Re: Need help with Visual Basic 6 and PostgreSQL



Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)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 are 8 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



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