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From: Kris Jurka <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Juho Saarikko <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #3965: UNIQUE constraint fails on long column values
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:26:14 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>



On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Juho Saarikko wrote:
>> While I didn't test, I'd imagine that this would also mean that any attempt
>> to insert such values to an already unique column would fail.
>
> Works here in 8.3:
>
> 	test=> insert into test values (repeat('a', 50000) || 'b');
>

This only works because it gets toasted before being put in the index. 
Since you've selected something real compressible, you can fit 50k chars 
into it.

Kris Jurka

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