Re: [NOVICE] Re: [INTERFACES] psql ERROR : Character Types Tuple is too big: size xxxxx

and on top of that, why insert character strings into columns expecting
numeric values?

defintely use VARCHAR unless you are going to be filling those columns up

-duck

> Compte utilisateur Sultan-advl <webmaster@advl.org> writes:
> > newkiwi=> insert into localisation values ('999', 'ee', 'ff', '999', 'gg',
> > 'hh', 'ii', 'jj', '999');
> > ERROR:  Tuple is too big: size 12356
> > newkiwi=> \d localisation
> > Table    = localisation
> > +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
> > |              Field               |              Type                | Length|
> > +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
> > | id_loc                           | int4 not null                    |     4 |
> > | voie_loc                         | char()                           |  2048 |
> > | codebat_loc                      | char()                           |  2048 |
> > | idplan_loc                       | int4                             |     4 |
> > | xplan_loc                        | char()                           |  2048 |
> > | yplan_loc                        | char()                           |  2048 |
> > | acces_loc                        | char()                           |  2048 |
> > | accesen_loc                      | char()                           |  2048 |
> > | id_ville_loc                     | int4                             |     4 |
> > +----------------------------------+----------------------------------+-------+
>
> Well, you've got six fixed-size 2K fields, which are going to take up
> 12K all by themselves, plus there's a few dozen bytes of overhead.
>
> I'd suggest using varchar or text instead of char --- do you really
> need 12K of blank-padding in every record?
>
>             regards, tom lane
>
> ************
>


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