Re: text field size

=?iso-8859-1?q?Hector=20Diaz?= wrote:
  >1) Hi I am a novice in pgsql and I am trying to
  >introduce a long text to one record... supposly text
  >field size are unlimited but when I tried to insert
  >the record the follow message appears :
  >
  >ERROR: Tuple is too big:size 10000, max size 8140
  >
  >How I can fix this problem or what do you suggest to
  >me?

Before PostgreSQL 7.1, there is a row size limit of about 8Kb.

Upgrade to 7.1beta5, or use large objects, or rethink your application, or
rebuild PostgreSQL with a larger row-limit and do an initdb to force
the change into the database.

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