From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: David Andersen <david@andersen.gs>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Using ENUM with huge NAMEDATALEN
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:44:24 -0400
Message-ID: <4191.1217108664@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"David Andersen" <david@andersen.gs> writes:
> One of the side tables is text with length of up to 900 characters. My
> question is whether I could build PostgreSQL with NAMEDATALEN (which
> controls the max size of Enums) equal to 900?
I wouldn't recommend it. Consider changing pg_enum.enumlabel to type
TEXT instead.
regards, tom lane
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