Re: query : max size Bytea

Arunachalam Parthasarathy wrote:
> hi,
> i would request you to answer the following query:
> 
> 1. What is the maximum size of data  single Bytea entry in column?
> 
> i would be thankful to you for the above request
> .
> P.S : my current reqirement is to add more that 1 gb of data in a
> single entry of type bytea column in each row.
> 
> Thanks and regards
> Arunachalam
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bytea uses up to 4 bytes to represent the binary string length (signed 
32-bit integer).  So the max data size is 2G.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-binary.html

andrew