From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman@gmail.com>
To: Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>
Cc: paulo matadr <saddoness@yahoo.com.br>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] bytea size limit?
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:09:01 +0000
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu> wrote:
> The TOAST implementation however only allows 30-bits for the
> size of the TOAST entry which caps the size at 2^30 or 1GB. I
> agree that he could very well be limited also by the memory on
> his system.
i wasn't aware of that, and also - it doesn't say anything about it in docs.
As for limitations, that also depends on db drivers he is using, etc,
etc. I use bytea to store 100-200MB objects in many dbs, but I
wouldn't go as far as 1.5GB ...
--
GJ
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