Re: 7.0 key features

On Mon, 8 May 2000, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Thus spake Vince Vielhaber
> > On Mon, 8 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
> > 
> > > "Mitch Vincent" <mitch@huntsvilleal.com> writes:
> > > > Is the row length limit 8k? If not, what is the row length limit?
> > > 
> > > Well, it's BLCKSZ less some overhead --- BLCKSZ is 8K in a stock
> > > installation ...
> > 
> > A text datatype isn't limited to that too, is it?
> 
> It would kind of have to be, wouldn't it, if the row it had to fit in
> had that limit?

BLOBs aren't.  Or did I miss something somewhere?  I've always understood
the text datatype to be simply a text version of a BLOB.  Not necessarily
in Postgres, but elsewhere.

Vince.
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