From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Vadivel Subramaniam <vadivel.subramaniam@flextronicssoftware.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: how to store more than 3 MB of character data in Postgres Varchar field
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:31:15 -0400
Message-ID: <25834.1118068275@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Vadivel Subramaniam <vadivel.subramaniam@flextronicssoftware.com> writes:
> 2. create table utilntmlscripts (name character varying, data character
> varying(10485770));
> ERROR: length for type 'varchar' cannot exceed 10485760
> It's not allowing more than 10 MB of size during table creation.
Use type "text", or equivalently varchar with no length specification.
The 1-MB limit on what you can write as a length spec is somewhat
arbitrary, but certainly an enforced length spec larger than that
would be a completely arbitrary number as well ...
regards, tom lane
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