Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-5.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12474B5DBFB for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:18:35 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.29]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97183-04 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:18:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gw.wicourts.gov (gwmta.wicourts.gov [165.219.244.99]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCC5B5DBE3 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:18:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from Courts-MTA by gw.wicourts.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:18:23 -0500 Message-Id: <4DF7275C020000250003E59F@gw.wicourts.gov> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:18:20 -0500 From: "Kevin Grittner" To: "Tim" , Subject: Re: tsvector limitations References: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201106/67 X-Sequence-Number: 37693 Tim wrote: > How many bytes of a tsvector would a 32MB ascii english unique > word list make? > How many bytes of a tsvector would something like "The Lord of the > Rings.txt" make? It would appear that nobody has run into this as a limit, nor done those specific tests. Storing a series of novels as a single value in a database seems to be bad design, of course, which might explain the lack of research. If you get some numbers through testing, please post them for future reference. -Kevin