Message-ID: <01BE859A.E1266440.jt-kirkpatrick@mpsllc.com>
From: JT Kirkpatrick <jt-kirkpatrick@mpsllc.com>
To: "'pgsql-interfaces@hub.org'" <pgsql-interfaces@hub.org>
Subject: tuple size too big??
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:20:43 -0400
Organization: MPS, LLC
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I am connecting to postgres 6.4.2 on rh linux 5.2, using new kernel 2.2.2, 
from access97 on a win98 machine through an obdc driver (somehow, that was 
a mouthful!).  I am converting some access files into postgres.  One file 
in particular has a NOTES field in it (access memo datatype, postgres text 
datatype) that may have large amounts of data in various records.  When I 
run an insert query to insert into the postgres tables from the access 
table, it bombs when it hits a record with"too much data" - I get the error 
message "tuple size too big, size 8360".  In the obdc driver, I tried 
increasing the "text as longvarchar" amount to 15000 - no good.  I then 
tried just unchecking the "text as longvarchar" option - no good.  I think 
the message is coming from postgres, not the obdc driver.  I have found a 
record in particular that causes the problem.  When I remove a few lines 
from the data, it pulls in just fine.  The few lines I removed had no 
special characters, etc.  what to do??  I need to be able to store this 
data in its entirety.  How to increase the allowable "tuple" size?  What is 
a tuple anyway??

jt